Crucifix

Crucifix accompanied Arma Christi to Poppiano near Montespertoli in Tuscany

Crucifix in a church

Crucifix is a term derived from the Latin church of XII ^century past participle of the verb which means "set on a cross. "

The crucifix is a symbol of Christian recalling the Crucifixion , that is to say the crucifixion of Jesus Christ , who died strapped to a cross.

A crucifix has essentially the form of a Latin cross , whose vertical line is extended downward and upward short, and can bring in this upper part the letters INRI, which stands for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. An image of Jesus is fixed to the cross, showing the nails in his hands and feet and a wound in his left side, with reference to stories of passion.

The crucifix is usually hung on the walls (houses and religious buildings, sometimes in front for the latter). Some small crucifix (a few centimeters in height) can rest on a support. One hangs a crucifix traditionally blessed branch. Crucifixes in churches are sometimes surrounded by figures of the Virgin Mary , the apostle John and Mary Magdalene , present at Golgotha. When the characters are of a certain size, it is referred to Calvary as crucifixes.

Italy

In Italy, Giunta Pisano is known in particular for the new realism of the crucifix was painted tabellone and representations of the crucifix, accompanied very often the instruments of the Passion ( Arma Christi ).

Descriptions of some crucifix

Christ romance of the thirteenth century (Museum of Laon ), note the crown of Christ.	Crucifix Orthodox and Catholic Blessed shoot.	Cimabue ( Arezzo ) the Virgin to the left of Christ and St. John on his left, weeping.	Giotto ( Padova ) the Virgin at the right hand of Christ and his son John to the left of Christ.
Polish crucifix, note the particular shape of the crucifix, like those of Jansenists , but recalling here the Gabelkreuz Rhinelanders.	Baroque crucifix (Church of Dieen am Ammersee ( Austria ), note the presence of angels, a symbol of eternal glory.	Crucifix surrounded by the Virgin and St. John ( Schleswig-Holstein ), note the symbols of the four evangelists in the four corners of the Cross.	Italian crucifix of the thirteenth century to the gallery of Lucca , the Virgin is always right and his son John, the apostle preferred to his left. The symbols of the evangelists are on either side of the horizontal arm.
Crucifix Gothic late (sixteenth century) with symbols of the Evangelists (region of Lbeck ).	Wooden crucifix and ivory , classical French school seventeenth century, noting the skull , symbol and meaning of Golgotha and the vanity of the world.	Display of a store in Lourdes.

Posture of Christ

Note the different postures of Christ on the Cross:

• Christus Triumphas Christ triumphant
• Christus patiens, Christ resigned
• Christus dolens, suffering Christ ( Giotto and Cimabue )

Special forms

In Italy, the end of Byzantine painting with his crucifix tabellone, occurs primarily by Croce and sagomata dipinti, crucifixes featureless silhouettes painted fretwork and, like those run by Lorenzo Monaco , to the hospital Santa Maria Nuova in Florence (now kept at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence ) .

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