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MEMLING, Hans: Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels

🖼 Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels, 1480s
Oil on wood
164 × 212 cm
Antwerp, Belgium

Ethereal gold leaf and delicate brushwork frame Christ playing a stringed instrument, ringed by angelic musicians in jeweled robes. Memling's vision synthesizes music, divinity, and earthly beauty—a quintessential Flemish meditation on heaven's harmony and spiritual transcendence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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