actually the best thing about the painting is its provenece, staying for 1400 years in the same northern italian hospital since the 15th century, when hospitals were way stations for pilgrims, and places to die (hostel, hospice, hospital, hotel)...but it kept being moved out further and further, from the chapel, to the wards, to the cemetery, as it became out of favour, until it was sold to a wealthy american in the early 20th century, and then lived in this upper east side townhouse for the century, husband to wife, until she died just before the milenum...where it got donated to our equivlent of an artistic mausaleum.