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and was completed in 1570. The painting is enclosed in a multi-coloured marble frame of the artist's own design which was commissioned by a
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spent three periods between 1555 and 1570 decorating various parts of the interior of San
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through the city. Following construction, the church was dedicated to a saint associated with the disease; in this case
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