Road to Calvalry (top); Pilate Washes His Hands (bottom)

Duccio di Buoninsegna arranges two linked Passion scenes in a vertical diptych with a gold ground and carefully modeled figures. The top panel shows the road to Calvary with Christ at the center in a red robe and halo, surrounded by a dense crowd and a diagonally placed cross, all rendered in elongated, elegant forms and flowing drapery. The bottom panel depicts Pilate washing his hands before a tribunal within an arcade-like interior, with soldiers and a lined crowd in warm earth tones, reflecting the restrained, linear Sienese style and the shallow, decorative space typical of early 14th-century painting.