The refectory of santa Croce is part of the Museum where you can admire works of art and fragments of frescoes and sculptures linked to the basilica complex. Its highlight is undoubtedly the dramatic painting on a large panel, Crucifix by Cimabue. Giotto's master Cimabue was the most important Italian painter of the late 1200s: his Crucifixes were still static and linked to the Byzantine tradition, but already began to dramatically express the death of dying Christ.
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