Crucifix

Segna di Bonaventura's monumental Crucifix, dated around 1310, belongs to the great tradition of painted crosses that hung above the altar screens of Italian Gothic churches. Segna, Duccio's nephew and most faithful follower, produced this work in the Christus patiens type — showing Christ dead on the cross with closed eyes and slumped body — which had largely replaced the earlier triumphant Christus triumphans type by the late 13th century under Franciscan influence.

Tempera and gold on a shaped wooden cross panel, with Christ's body rendered in careful anatomical detail against a gold background. Terminal panels at the cross's ends likely contained half-length figures of the Virgin and Saint John. Segna's style closely follows Duccio's refined modeling and linear elegance.