One of Cimabue’s 700-year-old gold-ground panels ... Made in around 1280, the work is painted in egg tempera and gold leaf on a poplar panel. Despite his anguish, Christ looks straight at ...
Cimabue’s Louvre reappraisal owes much to ... Measuring just 24 x 20 centimetres and painted in egg tempera, the unsigned painting caught the eye of a young auctioneer who had been asked to ...