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Unknown Umbrian artist, San Damiano Crucifix, twelfth century. San Damiano, Assisi (tempera on panel)
Christus triumphans |
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Cimabue, Crucifix, 1280s, commissioned by the Franciscans of Santa Croce, Florence (tempera on panel).
Christus patiens |
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Master Cosmatus, Sancta Sanctorum, 1278, commissioned by Nicholas III. Lateran Palace, Rome
porphyry “There is not a holier place in the entire world” |
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Giotto, Stefaneschi Altarpiece, early 14th century, commissioned by Jacopo Stefaneschi. Tempera on panel, orig. Old St. Peter’s, Rome (Pinacoteca, Vatican)
Babylonian Captivity |
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Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi, begun 1228, commissioned by the Franciscans with the support of the papacy Tau nave apse |
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Isaac Master, Esau Before Isaac, 1290s (?), commissioned by the Franciscans. Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
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Assisi Master, The Crib at Greccio, late 13th to early 14th c., commissioned by the Franciscans. Fresco, Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
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Giotto, frescoes of the Arena Chapel, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Padua, Italy
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Giotto, Expulsion of Joachim, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy
Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-98), Golden Legend apocrypha |
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Giotto, Kiss of Judas, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy
Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-98), Golden Legend apocrypha |
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Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence, ca. 1059-1150
Arte del Calimala (Wool Merchant’s Guild) Opera di San Giovanni (building works of San Giovanni) verde di Prato |
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Arnolfo di Cambio, Palazzo della Signoria (Palazzo Vecchio), begun 1298, commissioned by the Florentine government, Florence
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Cimabue, Enthroned Madonna and Child, 1280s, Santa Trinità, Florence. Tempera on panel, 11’7”x7’4”
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Duccio, Enthroned Madonna and Child (Rucellai), 1285, commissioned by the Confraternity of the Laudesi, Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Tempera on panel, 14’9”x9’6”
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Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna and Child, ca. 1310-15, Ognissanti Church, Florence. Tempera on panel, 10’8”x6’8”
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