Cimabue (Cenni di Peppo)

painting of the Virgin and child Jesus seated between two angels
Two Cimabue Panels Reunited in US for the First Time in Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting, October 3 through December 31, 2006
video still of Xavier Salomon and oil painting depicting biblical scene of the flagellation of Jesus Christ
Cocktails with a Curator: Cimabue’s “Flagellation of Christ”

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon examines the only work by Cimabue in a public collection in the United States, a small panel depicting The Flagellation of Christ. Acquired by the Frick in 1950, the attribution of this work was a topic of debate until a sister panel was discovered in 2000, establishing that they once belonged to a larger ensemble by the 13th-century Florentine.