{"id":2800,"date":"2024-03-21T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=opera&p=2800"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:45:35","slug":"painted-cross","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/painted-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted cross (Christus patiens)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pinacoteca di Faenza Cross<\/em> depicting Christus patiens<\/em>, or Christ suffering, is inspired by a crucifix painted by Giunta Pisano which once hung in the church of San Ranierino in Pisa (now Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, inv. no. 2325), especially in the decoration of the tabelloni<\/em> (the parts on either side of Christ\u2019s body) which repeat the same lozenge motif as the San Ranierino cross. The artist, known as the Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes, has further enriched his work with the use of glass paste and metal leaf inlay to create what is tantamount to a large-scale example of the goldsmith\u2019s art. A comparison with the cross in Pisa suggests that the crucifix must originally have been crowned by a painted disc, probably depicting Christ blessing.<\/p>\n

The suggestion that this cross \u2013 one of the artist\u2019s masterpieces \u2013 came from the church of San Francesco in Faenza is based on the presence in the predella of a small figure of St. Francis and on the artist\u2019s relations with the Franciscan Order, for whom he painted all his currently known works. The Faenza church was founded in 1271, which allows us to date the cross to c.<\/em> 1270\u20135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2727,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[59],"class_list":["post-2800","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-tempera-on-wood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2800\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}