Mystic Crucifixion is completed about 1500 as an apocalyptic sacred panel in the Savonarolan aftermath neighbourhood
Mystic Crucifixion is a polarization path of medium confidence on political programme, high that the panel exists in the late file. In the causal graph this event strengthens Political Polarization, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Context
Apocalyptic city-penitence imagery is a polarization path for a fractured republic. Shared Savonarolan memory remains. Uncertainty on exact partisanship stays named.
Sandro Botticelli’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Fogg Art Museum holds the panel; dating c. 1500. Shield of Florence and angelic penitence imagery sit in post-Savonarola crisis visual culture. Not a unique political manifesto transcript.
Why it matters
Mystic Crucifixion is a polarization path of medium confidence on political programme, high that the panel exists in the late file.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Sandro Botticelli
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactMystic Crucifixion is completed about 1500 as an apocalyptic sacred panel in the Savonarolan aftermath neighbourhood
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 March 1500 · verified
Mystic Crucifixion is a polarization path of medium confidence on political programme, high that the panel exists in the late file.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Met Heilbrunn — BotticelliMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Sandro BotticelliEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and Met-survey neighbourhood independently treat late apocalyptic crucifixes in Botticelli’s sacred turn.
Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Split from dated Mystic Nativity.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSandro Botticelli
- contributed toFactMystic Crucifixion is completed about 1500 as an apocalyptic sacred panel in the Savonarolan aftermath neighbourhood
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Mystic Crucifixion is completed about 1500 as an apocalyptic sacred panel in the Savonarolan aftermath neighbourhood. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-mystic-crucifixion
https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-mystic-crucifixion
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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