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Simone dei Crocifissi

Simone dei Crocifissi

1399 · Papal States, Lordship of Bologna · Italian Gothic, Medieval art, Religious art

The story

The name is a later invention. Simone di Filippo Benvenuti, a shoemaker's son, worked in Bologna through the second half of the 14th century, and only in the 1600s did writers begin calling him Simone dei Crocifissi, Simone of the Crucifixes, after a handful of large painted crosses he made late in life showing Christ nailed to the wood.

He was the busiest painter in Bologna of his generation. Around 70 of his panels survive, most of them small devotional works commissioned for private homes and chapels, painted in the bright, slightly rough Gothic manner he inherited from Vitale da Bologna, the city's leading painter a generation before him. He also frescoed the churches of Santo Stefano and San Michele in Bosco.

He was born in Bologna and died there in 1399, having spent a working life of more than 40 years inside the same city walls.

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Works

3 works
Dream of the VirginDream of the VirginSimone dei Crocifissi, 1372Nativity of ChristNativity of ChristSimone dei Crocifissi, 1380Reliquary Triptych with the Virgin and Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary MagdaleneReliquary Triptych with the Virgin and Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary MagdaleneSimone dei Crocifissi, 1365