Christ Going to Calvary

Christ Going to Calvary is a 1534 oil on panel painting by Polidoro da Caravaggio, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.

Christ Going to Calvary
Artist	Polidoro da Caravaggio
Completion date	1534
Medium	Oil on panel painting
Subject	Jesus
Location	National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

It was commissioned in 1530 by Pietro Ansalone, consul of the 'confraternita dei Catalani', for the church of Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani in Messina, who intended it to compete with Raphael's 1517 Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary for Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo.

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