The “Peace” by Father Gregorio Polacco (+Roma1687). It has been engraved in ivory by Father Gregorio Polacco, capuchin, in 1632, as writen at the back. In the upper part Jesus praying in the Olive Garden is represented, while an angel offers him the Passion chalice to drink; the apostles on the right are sleeping; in the background the city of Jerusalem. The scene is presented in an oval – as in a mirror in elaborated frame – by two small angels in adoration. In the centre, Jesus’ deposition from the Cross supported by his Mother. The character holding the pot of scents is Nicodemo, the woman knelt before him and kissing the dead man’s left arm is usually the Magdalen in the capuchin iconography. In foreground a long thread-like Cross with the Crucifix; on the sides two angels with joint hands. The basis represents Jesus falling on his Way to Calvary; on the sides two heads. Ivory is put on a mahogany mounting with handle, in order to enable the believers to kiss it easily.

Father Gregorio Polacco (+Roma 1687) priest sculptor “of such exemplar and virtuous life to prove himself to be a real son of St. Francis” the sources write. He also carved “The Virgin with the Child Jesus that is in the “SS.ma Concezione Church”. He died when he was 94 years old “with universal mourning, as he had always been a very good religious man”

He wore the capuchins’ cloth in 1627 and he wanted to be called with the same name as the more famous father Gregorio Polacco, who had died the same year in Viterbo.