Crucifixion, Madonna, and saints

Pacino di Buonaguida's Crucifixion with the Madonna and Saints, dated to around 1300–1310 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, is a devotional panel by this Florentine miniaturist and panel painter who was one of the most prolific artists in early Trecento Florence. Working in a style that combined elements of both the Giottesque revolution and older Byzantine conventions, Pacino specialized in small-scale devotional works and manuscript illuminations for Florentine religious institutions. The Uffizi panel reflects the intense Franciscan devotion to the Crucifixion that pervaded early fourteenth-century Florence.

Executed in tempera and gold on panel, the painting displays Pacino's miniaturist precision with finely detailed figures and decorative elements on a relatively small scale. The composition centers on the crucifix with symmetrically arranged mourning figures, using a rich palette of vermilion, ultramarine, and gold against the burnished gold ground.