Ambrogio LorenzettiItalian, 1290–1348The Crucifixion
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “The Crucifixion” now? Harvard Art Museums, Gallery 2500, floor 2, European Art, 13th–16th century, Cambridge. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.
On public display.
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About the painting
This panel may be one of the last executed by Ambrogio before he died in the devastating pandemic known as the Black Death. Ambrogio and his brother Pietro ran two of the most successful workshops in Siena, producing many images made for private devotion. Although there are no traces of hinging on the sides of this panel, a painting of an enthroned Virgin and Child with saints attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti that is now in Berlin may be the other half of a diptych to which this painting once belonged. If so, it suggests a close relationship between the artists’ workshops. The coupling of an enthroned Virgin with a Crucifixion was common in the fourteenth century, but few Crucifixions from this period present the balance of narrative, composition, and palette so subtly.
Harvard Art Museums
Details
- Accession number
- 1939.113
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
