Lost wax bronze casting from original mold
The beautiful curcifix by Giambologna (1529-1608) has been recently restored and is now exhibited to the public in the Church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence.
Giambologna was a sculptor at the Court of the Medici Family. Over the years of his prolific and long carrier, inside his workshop toghether with his many valorous apprentices, he managed to produce not only important monumental sculptures but also a smaller production of bronzes, replicated in several copies, which were sold to the most important royal European lineages. The Crucifix was surely one of the most requested subjects.
The Crucifix of the Church of Santissima Annunziata was a monumental sculpture executed fro the tomb of Giambologna himself and of all those other ducth artists who lived and died in Florence.
Here Giambologna was buried in the August of 1608.
The Crucifix represents the dead Christ, with the head reclined and the eyes shut; the body is elegant and majestic, almost athletic and with no sign of suffering and passion.
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