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MEMLING, Hans: Passion (Greverade) Altarpiece (central panel)

🖼 Passion (Greverade) Altarpiece (central panel), 1491
Oil on wood
205 × 150 cm
Lübeck, Germany

Intricate gold leaf and jewel-toned tempera depict Christ's Passion in meticulous detail across a crowded, hierarchical composition. Memling's Northern precision and spiritual intensity made this altarpiece a pinnacle of late-fifteenth-century Flemish devotional art, influencing Northern European religious imagery for generations.

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E. H. Gombrich
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