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Crucifixion fresco, Assisi Diocesan Museum, Assisi, Umbria, Italy

Crucifixion, fresco painted 1341-47, by Puccio Capanna, originally in the Oratory of St Rufinuccio Fraternity and detached in 1955 (the sinopia still remain), now in the Confraternity Room of the Assisi Diocesan Museum, or Museo Diocesano e Cripta di San Rufino, Assisi, Umbria, Italy. This painting is known for the emotive expressions on the faces of the Virgin and saints. The museum was founded in 1941 by bishop Giuseppe Placido Niccolini under the Cathedral Piazza to preserve works of art from Assisi's collections. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Crucifixion, fresco painted 1341-47, by Puccio Capanna, originally in the Oratory of St Rufinuccio Fraternity and detached in 1955 (the sinopia still remain), now in the Confraternity Room of the Assisi Diocesan Museum, or Museo Diocesano e Cripta di San Rufino, Assisi, Umbria, Italy. This painting is known for the emotive expressions on the faces of the Virgin and saints. The museum was founded in 1941 by bishop Giuseppe Placido Niccolini under the Cathedral Piazza to preserve works of art from Assisi's collections. Picture by Manuel Cohen