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"title": "Plate Depicting Christ\u2019s Passion",
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"description": "The painted scenes on this plate depicting the Passion of Christ include the betrayal of Jesus by his disciple Judas (right); the arrest and condemnation by the Jews (left); the bearing of the cross (top); the Crucifixion (middle); and the resurrection (bottom). At least one of the scenes (the condemnation or the Scourging at the Pillar) is based on a Florentine woodcut from the devotional writings of Girolamo Savonarola (1452\u20131498).",
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"citation": "Balniel, Lord, Kenneth Clark, and Ettore Modigliana. Exhibition of Italian Art. A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.",
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"citation": "Longhurst, M. H., A. F. Kendrick, Bernard Rackham, and Wilfred Buckley. \"The Italian Exhibition.\" The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 56, no. 322 (June 1930): 9-31.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 21",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Italian Majolica.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p 14; Reproduced p. 11",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141102"
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"citation": "Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.",
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"citation": "Alinari, Alessandro. Il pittore della processione papale: un ceramista toscano del Rinascimento. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa, 2020.",
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"citation": "Hilary, John. Magnates & Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.",
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