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Fig. 14 - JACOBELLO DEL FIORE: TheWay to Calvary,         Fig. 15 - JACOBELLO DEL FIORE:The Capture of Christ,
         The Royal Collection, Hampton Court                                    Private Collection

   A STYLISTICALLY SIMILAR GROUP                           with it by Carlo Volpe.32 Two of these, with
                OF PAINTINGS                               the Agony in the Garden and the Lamentation,
                                                           are in the Vatican Picture Gallery -
When I began to study the Crucifixion                      (Figs.12,13);33 a third, the Way to Calvary -
        now in the Matthiesen Gallery, the                 ( Fig. 14), is part of the British Royal
catalogue of the ‘Pseudo-Avanzi’, as I then                Collection34 and a fourth, the Arrest of Christ,
called the artist, was limited to this painting            formerly in a Bolognese private collection,
and a series of small panels with Stories from             has recently resurfaced on the Italian art
the Passion which had been verbally associated             market - (Fig. 15).35

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