A Lucchese Passionary Related to the Sarzana Crucifix
Edward B. Garrison
PRESENT-DAY history of early Lucchese painting must inevitably begin with the great Crucifix in cathedral church Sarzana, signed by a phantom painter, Guillelmus, and inscribed year 1138, for this is earliest dated work to survive. Upon it hinge all our ideas Lucca first half twelfth century; other works be brought into relation it, measured against it. Its excellence has been fully revealed only since its cleaning restoring between 1942 1946, so that now may appreciated according merits as one surpassing creations Italy time.
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