Central Italian, probably Tuscan, 12th century

Overall the condition of the corpus is good. There is some minor wear and dirt to the surface consistent with age. There is rubbing to the gilding throughout. There is a loss to underside of the suppedaneum.
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This corpus fits into a group of Italian bronze corpora of which only a small number of examples survive. Bronzes from the group can be recognised by a perezonium which is split at the knees and a neatly modelled knot in the shape of a figure-eight on the cingulum. The present figure stands out for the forceful attitude of the body and the fine formal arrangement of the hair. A nearly identical corpus in the Diocesan Museum in Pistoia is illustrated by Bloch (op.cit., no. VI F 13). The reverse is also consistent with Italian corpora from this date: see for example Bloch, no. VI F 9.

RELATED LITERATURE
P. Bloch, Romanische Bronzekruzifixe, Berlin, 1992, pp. 265-266 and 268-270, pl. 129 and 170, nos. VI F 9 and 13