Christ on the Cross with Saint Francis, the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, and Saint Dominic

This Crucifixion panel by Luca di Tomme, a leading Sienese painter of the mid-fourteenth century, combines devotional intensity with the theological program of mendicant spirituality. The inclusion of both Saint Francis and Saint Dominic flanking the cross alongside the Virgin and Saint John reflects the cooperative ideals of the Franciscan and Dominican orders in late medieval Siena. Painted around 1369, the work likely served as an altarpiece or devotional focus in a church connected to one of these orders.

Executed in egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, the composition arranges the mourning figures symmetrically around the central crucifix. Luca di Tomme's style blends Sienese grace with a restrained emotionalism, using elongated proportions and rich color harmonies against the luminous gold ground.