Life of Christ Panels. The Life of Christ is a series of five paintings in tempera and gold on panel depicting scenes from the Life of Christ and the Last Judgement.
The works date to around 1290–1300 and are attributed to the circle of Cimabue or to a Venetian artist. They are now in various museums and private collections: the Longhi Foundation in Florence, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Pedralbes Monastery near Barcelona and a private collection in Milan.
Similar in style and dimensions, they were probably originally part of a larger unknown group from an unknown location. This original group was probably not a predella, since sections of these were usually rectangular not square, but may instead have been a small polyptych.
Roberto Longhi was the first to study the group, only four of which were then known; the Last Judgement and Crucifixion were rediscovered later. He attributed them to Cimabue himself, as did Adolfo Venturi, Wilhelm Suida, G. Fiocco and H. Gronau.
Brandi, however, assigned them to an artist influenced by Cimabue, as did Samek Ludovici and Van Marle, who spoke of an artist of the Tuscan School. Edward Garrison attributed them to an unknown 13th-century Venetian artist whom he named the "Speaking Christ Master", and to whom he also attributed a small Madonna and Child in the National Gallery, London, now assigned to the Master of Badia a Isola. The
The works date to around 1290–1300 and are attributed to the circle of Cimabue or to a Venetian artist. They are now in various museums and private collections: the Longhi Foundation in Florence, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Pedralbes Monastery near Barcelona and a private collection in Milan.
Similar in style and dimensions, they were probably originally part of a larger unknown group from an unknown location. This original group was probably not a predella, since sections of these were usually rectangular not square, but may instead have been a small polyptych.
Roberto Longhi was the first to study the group, only four of which were then known; the Last Judgement and Crucifixion were rediscovered later. He attributed them to Cimabue himself, as did Adolfo Venturi, Wilhelm Suida, G. Fiocco and H. Gronau.
Brandi, however, assigned them to an artist influenced by Cimabue, as did Samek Ludovici and Van Marle, who spoke of an artist of the Tuscan School. Edward Garrison attributed them to an unknown 13th-century Venetian artist whom he named the "Speaking Christ Master", and to whom he also attributed a small Madonna and Child in the National Gallery, London, now assigned to the Master of Badia a Isola. The
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