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MEMLING, Hans: The Virgin Showing the Man of Sorrows

🖼 The Virgin Showing the Man of Sorrows, 1475 or 1479
Oil on oak panel
27.4 × 19.9 cm
Melbourne, Australia

Soft gold light illuminates the Virgin Mary presenting the suffering Christ figure—a poignant vertical composition rendered in meticulous Flemish detail. This devotional image epitomizes late 15th-century spiritual intensity, merging Byzantine iconography with Northern Renaissance humanism to evoke compassionate witness.

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