Beautiful stone bas-relief with traces of polychromy depicting the ascent to Calvary. Dimensions cm 86 x 54 X 10. Northern Italy, late 15th - early 16th century. The ascent to Calvary is an episode from the Passion of Jesus. The story, briefly recounted by the Gospels, tells how Christ, after being condemned, mocked, and bleeding, has the cross placed on his shoulders as a burden.