Artist

Master of the Bigallo Crucifixion

b. 1150

Master of the Bigallo Crucifixion is a Byzantine icon painting artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at São Paulo Museum of Art.

The Master of the Bigallo Crucifix or Bigallo Master (fl. 1215/20-1265) was an Italian painter active around Florence in the first half of the 13th century. He ran one of the first fully organized workshops before Cimabue, specializing in large painted crucifixes for churches, one of the main formats for panel paintings at the time. His notname comes from one of these in the Museo del Bigallo in Florence. A similar work is in the Palazzo Barberini site of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica museum, Rome.

Collections represented

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