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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