M131 crucifix The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited

The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited with the Museo de’ Medici this autumn

19th century French fragment decorated with calcite crystals on sphalerite

5" deep x 12" high

and aragonite and framed with 18th century Italian floral fragments and a large 18th century Italian gilded Rococo pediment crown

INRI is written on  the piece which stems from the Latin phrase 'Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum' meaning 'Jesus of Nazareth

M131 crucifix The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited18th century Italian base washed with the mud from the Florence flood. With a rare fossil coral head on a petrified wood base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited with the Museo de Medici this autumn. The Museo de' Medici or the Medici Museum is located in the monumental Rotonda Brunelleschi which was designed in 1432 and