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Other scholars such as Fiocco argue that there is no evidence for how the three works got from Mantua to
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doubted that the three works were conceived as a single unified triptych and theorised that instead they all came from different locations in the same chapel, as did
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as "a painting , in which are scenes with small but very beautiful figures ... in the castle at Mantua, for the chapel".
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The first secure reference to the three paintings dates to 1587, when it was found cut up in Valle Muggia near
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Another version of the painting sold for the then record price of $ 10.5 million in 1985.
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which ended in 1459, rather than to his maturity in Mantua.
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