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The small Pinacoteca includes an emotionally intense Crucifixion by Coppo di Marcovaldo and a Taddeo di Bartolo painting of St. Gimignano, in which you can see what the towers of the medieval city looked like.
The songs are mystic in nature; many narrate the story of Christ’s life, his anguish, betrayal, his crucifixion and resurrection, and others praise the virtues of suffering and penance.
Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.
Highlights include: Giovanni Bellini’s gentle Transfiguration of Christ standing serenely between Moses and Elijah; Mantegna’s Portrait of a Boy; and Michelangelo’s drawing of Three Soldiers for his Vatican fresco of St. Peter’s Crucifixion.
In the Gondi Chapel (left of the high altar), the Brunelleschi Crucifixion (1410), his only scultpure in wood, brings to the human body a characteristic idealized harmony, compared with Donatello’s more personal piece in the church of Santa Croce (see page 87).
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