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MEMLING, Hans: Scenes from the Passion of Christ

🖼 Scenes from the Passion of Christ, 1470-71
Oil on oak panel
56.7 × 92.2 cm
Turin, Italy

Golden light bathes crowded narrative scenes of Christ's suffering rendered in meticulous Flemish detail across a unified composition. Memling's sequential storytelling and jewel-like precision established the devotional altarpiece as a supreme Northern Renaissance form.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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