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MEMLING, Hans: Passion (Greverade) Altarpiece (left wing)

🖼 Passion (Greverade) Altarpiece (left wing), 1491
Oil on wood
205 × 75 cm
Lübeck, Germany

Gilded panels frame scenes of Christ's suffering rendered in jewel-toned oils with meticulous detail. Memling's Flemish precision captures the Passion across multiple narrative episodes, establishing the altarpiece as devotional theater that guided medieval prayer and meditation through Christ's final hours.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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