The Crucifixion

14th century

Simone dei Crocefissi Italian

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Title The Crucifixion

Artwork Date 14th century

Artist Simone dei Crocefissi

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Overall: 24 3/4 × 13 1/4 × 1 3/8 inches (62.9 × 33.7 × 3.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 61.349

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Provenance

until 1926, collection Achillito Chiesa (Milan, Italy)

April 16, 1926, Chiesa auction, at (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA), lot 11. 1961, purchased by Lillian Henkel Haas [1879-1969] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) for the Detroit Institute of Arts

1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The Collection of Achillito Chiesa Part II: Italian Primitives and Renaissance Paintings, a Small Group of Canvases by Flemish and French Masters. Sales cat., American Art Galleries. New York, April 16, 1926, unpaginated, no. 11 (ill.).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 59 [as Jacopo da Bologna].

Fredericksen, Burton and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-19th-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 188 [as Simone dei Crocefissi da Bologna - Simone di Filipo Benvenuti, c 1330-1339].

Arcangeli, Francesco et al. Pittura Bolognese del' 300. Bologna, 1978, (fig. 76) [identified as Simone dei Crocefissi, misidentified as belonging to Art Institute of Chicago].

Skaug, Erling S. Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting. Oslo, 1994, vol. 1, p. 132, note 270; vol. 2, 5.8.

Villers, Caroline, Robert Gibbs, Rebecca Hellen and Annette King. “Simone dei Crocefissi’s ‘Dream of the Virgin’ in the Society of Antiquaries, London.” The Burlington Magazine 142, no. 1169 (August 2000): pp. 481-486, p. 484, note 9 [as in the Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit].

Guerzi, Chiara. “Frammenti di una decorazione confraternale trecentesca: l’oratorio dei Battuti Bianchi a Ferrara.” Bollettino del Arte 122, no. 6 (October-December 2002): pp. 85-118, p. 97 (ill.).

del Monaco, Gianluca. Simone di Filippo detto “dei Crocifissi.” Pittura e devozione nel secondo Trecento bolognese. Padua, 2018, cat. 41, pp. 166-167, tav. LXXXVII (ill.).

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