The Crucifixion

A tempera painting on panel of a fifteenth century unknown author, it was the altarpiece of the ancient altar of the Crucifix placed back to its original location after the restoration and cleaning up of the Magdalene in 2000. It represents Christ between the Virgin Mary and Saint John, assisted by two angels. In the background, a landscape reproducing, on one side, the castle in Polverigi seen from the church and, on the other one, the probable view of the Town Hall with the entrance of the castle. Below the scene there are three unidentified characters. The composition is simple, the environment is serene and the pictorial technique interesting, however the iconographic part that transforms in Golgotha the hill on which stood the monastery, seems more dedicated to the allegory of Christ protecting Polverigi than to the tragic event of the crucifixion.