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Christ Carrying the Cross is a small painting in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Italy. Painted some time between 1508 and 1510, the painting is unusual because it was widely believed to have miraculous healing powers, especially significant during the years of the plague.

Authorship
The authorship of the painting is a subject of great controversy. Originally believed to be a late work by Giorgione, a great artist who died in the plague of 1510, the painting was later attributed to Titian. In his first edition of The Lives of the Artists, (1550) Giorgio Vasari included Christ Carrying the Cross in his biography of Giorgione. In his second edition, published in 1568, however, Vasari admitted he had been mistaken, and that the painting was actually by Titian. In his seventeenth-century biography of Titian, Carlo Ridolfi also claimed the painting as a work by that artist.