The exhibition ” Benedetto da Maiano” a San Gimignano
The exhibition “Maiano Benedetto da San Gimignano, the rediscovery of a forgotten crucified” was launched today in San Gimignano (Si), the Museo del Conservatorio di Santa Chiara, which is part of the complex of Museums , and will remain ‘open until June 21. This is the first public display of rediscovered polychrome wooden crucifix attributed to Benedetto da Maiano (Florence 1442-1497), considered one of the masters of Michelangelo.
The crucified and ‘work done by one of the greatest artists of the early Renaissance who showed, with his personal style, a clear interest in the anatomy and proportions of the human body, the result of artistic conception and philosophical renaissance. The crucified and ‘work done by one of the greatest artists of the early Renaissance who showed, with his personal style, a clear interest in the anatomy and proportions of the human body, the result of artistic conception and philosophical renaissance. The testimony of the face, close enough in shape, and the slight tilt of the head toward the right shoulder, which seem to give Christ an expression of serene acceptance of destiny, while the meticulous and soft plastic of the body seems to stop l ‘ moment of the final abandonment to death. The testimony of the face, close enough in shape, and the slight tilt of the head toward the right shoulder, which seem to give Christ an expression of serene acceptance of destiny, while the meticulous and soft plastic of the body seems to stop l ‘ moment of the final abandonment to death.
The work, 170 centimeters high, and ‘was probably made by Benedict during the last quarter of the fifteenth to the Hospital of Santa Fina, where for a long time has adorned the lane to passing men, during the 60s of the twentieth century, in ‘apartment the sisters of Santa Marta. The work, 170 centimeters high, and ‘was probably made by Benedict during the last quarter of the fifteenth to the Hospital of Santa Fina, where for a long time has adorned the lane to passing men, during the 60s of the twentieth century, in ‘apartment the sisters of Santa Marta.