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Cristo alla colonna Castiglion Fiorentino
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Artist: Niccolò di Smeraldo Salvi
Year: 1617
Current location: MUSEO DELLA PIEVE DI SAN GIULIANO
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
The sculpture was created in 1617, coinciding with the restoration of the church and the founding of the Compagnia della Buona Morte (Company of the Good Death), by the Lucignano-born carver Niccolò di Smeraldo Salvi and painted by Michelangelo Busti of Cortona. Salmi places these religious wooden sculptures in the wake of a Renaissance tradition and identifies Salvi's naturalism as having a more pronounced formalism than that of other artists, such as Sallustio Lombardi. The sculpture does not appear to differ significantly in quality from the Risen Christ in the Church of the Gesù (1620), as Cantelli points out.
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