Crocifisso attribuito a michelangelo biography

The Crucifix theme, so dear to 15th-century Florentine sculptors starting from the striking opposition between the crucifixes by Brunelleschi and Donatello in the first twenty years of the century, had introduced the motif of perfect human proportions, expressed in the ideal canon for the nude male body, into art; Leonardo da Vinci and Francesco di Giorgio conferred visibility to this canon in the early s by creating the famed icon of the Vitruvian Man.

On the other hand, Savonarola had founded his own personal devotion and that of others on the image of Christ on the cross, stimulating the multiplication of medium to small size crucifixes for chapels or for domestic use.

Michelangelo, whom we know was also the author of many artworks destined for private use, at the time and in those circumstances might have made other wooden crucifixes, not unlike what was commonly being done in a number of Florentine workshops and especially by Benedetto da Maiano a