Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalene

Allegretto Nuzi, the leading painter in the Marches region of central Italy during the mid-Trecento, created this Crucifixion with mourning figures around 1365 in a style that synthesized influences from Florence, Siena, and the local Marchigian tradition. Working primarily in Fabriano, Nuzi helped establish a provincial school of painting that would later produce Gentile da Fabriano, the great master of the International Gothic. The panel is now in the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama.

Painted in tempera on gold ground panel, the Crucifixion scene arranges the mourning Virgin, Saint John, and Mary Magdalene around the central cross with restrained emotional expressiveness. Nuzi's technique shows a distinctive blend of Sienese decorative elegance and Florentine structural clarity, with careful attention to textile patterns and tooled gold haloes.