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Early 1400s

Christ on the Way to Calvary

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Italian (active Siena), first documented 1417, died 1482

The scene depicts a passage in the late thirteenth-century devotional text The Meditations on the Life of Christ, which describes Christ turning to Mary outside the gate of Jerusalem, and the unusual length of the Cross.

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Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia), Christ on the Way to Calvary, Early 1400s | Philadelphia Museum of Art