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The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.
In the right transept, the Cimabue’s famous portrait of St. Francis, believed to be a close physical resemblance, shows him to the right of the enthroned Madonna.
Giotto breathes a warm humanity into his Madonna Enthroned (1310) that distinguishes it from the more formal pictures of the subject by Cimabue and Duccio in the same room.
Several priceless frescoes were severely damaged or destroyed, notably invaluable works by Cimabue (1226–1337) featured on a portion of the Upper Church’s vaulted ceiling, which plunged to the floor during the quakes.
In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.