The 1280 painting titled "The Mocking of Christ" was discovered in the French town of Compiègne in 2019, and is the work of Florentine artist Cimabue.

Shortly afterwards, France’s culture ministry declared The Mocking of Christ (c. 1280) to be a “national treasure” and implemented an export ban that barred it from leaving the country for ...

To the shock the art history community, that’s what exactly happened in 2019. One of Cimabue’s 700-year-old gold-ground panels was found hanging over a hotpot in an elderly French women’s ...

This photo taken on September 23, 2019 in Paris shows a painting titled "the Mocking of Christ" by the late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue.

An earlier work than the “Mocking of Christ”, the restored “Maestà” shows how Cimabue had already opened the way for naturalism in Western painting, breaking with the conventions of ...