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This painting is a predella to a panel now in the Louvre, Paris.
Giovanni di Paolo was among the most inventive narrative painters in fifteenth-century Siena. During his long career he found great commercial success with his large-scale altarpieces as well as with more intimate objects destined for private devotion. It was in this smaller format, as well as in the exquisite predelle he produced for his altarpieces that he produced arguably his best work.
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