“The Mocking of Christ,” a 10-inch tempera painting attributed to Cimabue, was discovered in a French kitchen in June. The masterpiece sold for $26.8 million on Sunday.

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.

Lil Nas X defends J Christ art after people accuse him of mocking Jesus. Picture: Leon Bennett/WireImage, Columbia Records Taking to Twitter after the art went viral, Lil Nas X defended himself.

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 ...

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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 ...

View The Mocking of Christ in a grisaille depicting God the Father, the Evangelists, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Devil and Death with the crowned Serpent by Frans Francken the Younger on ...

He is mocking Christ. That's why he uses Christian imagery to do it." He continued, "He's doing it with the goal to mock us because that's how he gets his clicks.

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 ...

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.