I plucked this slim paperback off our art shelves recently. I think we got it from Gwen? I’ve brought it to the pub, for perusal at our now quite regular Friday brunch.
I’m not religious. But I do like the artistic heritage and traditions of our collective past. And as a massive Picasso fan, I’m quite fond of his homages to this genre.
Anyway, I didn’t know, till I started studying this book, that Cimabue’s Crucifixion had itself undergone death and resurrection. How very apt!
The river Arno burst its banks in 1966, flooding Florence. The Museo dell’ Opera of Santa Croce was submerged in eleven feet of flood water!
