Cocktails with a Curator™: Cimabue's "Flagellation of Christ"

In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator™,” Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon examines the only work by Cimabue in a public collection in the United States, a small panel depicting "The Flagellation of Christ." Acquired by the Frick in 1950, the attribution of this work was a topic of debate until a sister panel was discovered in 2000, establishing that they once belonged to a larger ensemble by the 13th-century Florentine. (In 2019, a third fragment was discovered.) As a nod to the gold background, this week’s complementary cocktail is the Gold Rush, a drink invented in New York in the 1920s. To view this painting in detail, please visit our website: https://www.frick.org/cimabuechrist