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“Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make - the one being Christ's dead body being laid in the tomb , and the other Christ arising from the dead to the consternation of the guards — these same two pictures are now finished through studious application, so that I am now disposed to deliver the same and so to afford to His Highness. For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed , which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.”

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“would not touch the painting, nor finish it unless the claimant pays him the balance due or guarantees it by giving a security.”

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