Word: croce
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...Santa Croce, where the depth of the water averaged 25 feet, the famous Cimabue Crucifix was submerged and almost completely destroyed, the Domenico Veneziano fresco of St. John the Baptist and St. Francis was streaked with heating oil, as were the Tadeo Gaddi Last Supper and other frescoes, including the important fragments by Orcagna. The Bacchus, the Brutus and Pitti Madonna of Michelangelo in the Bargello Museum were also badly streaked with...
...floods that tore through the Renaissance city of Florence have gone, but the mud and shock remain. So far, 885 objects of irreplaceable art have been declared casualties. The principal victim: Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix ion, drowned inside the Santa Croce museum, where waters rose more than 14 feet. "It's a corpse, the paint is gone, and it can only be displayed as a relic," said University of Pennsylvania Art Professor Frederick Hartt...
...rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce. In the basements and other galleries of the Uffizi, 1,200 paintings were spattered with mud and grease...
...forgotten about them was Ugo Procacci, Florence's superintendent of galleries and formerly the Uffizi Gallery's chief restorer. While bundling off Florentine art treasures for safekeeping after the outset of World War II, he was struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from...
...handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt in 1628, with new interior walls set inside the structure. With one major Giotto find to his credit, Procacci prepared for what he hoped would be an even grander...