Crucifix (c. 1265) is a wooden crucifix painted in distemper, attributed to the Florentine painter and mosaicist Cimabue. It is one of two large crucifixes thought to be by his hand. The crucifix was commissioned by the Franciscan friars of Santa Croce, and is built from a complex arrangement of five main and eight ancillary timber boards. The crucifix is one the first Italian artworks to break from the late medieval Byzantine style, and is renowned for its technical innovations and humanistic iconography.