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Advent and Triumph of Christ
Advent and Triumph of Christ is an oil painting on a panel of wood, painted c.1480 by German-born Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. It was made for the altar of the Tanners' guild in Our Lady's Church in Bruges, but is now held by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. It measures 81 × 189 cm.
The painting shows 25 episodes from the "Life of Christ" (although some have interpreted it as a version of the Seven Joys of the Virgin)
). These were distributed all over Europe, and often used as patterns by less ambitious painters. Hans Memling's "Scenes from the Passion of Christ" and "Advent and Triumph of Christ" are examples of a large number of scenes, in these case over twenty, shown in a single bird's eye view image of Jerusalem; another is illustrated here.
In Protestant areas production of paintings of the "Life" stopped very soon after the Reformation, but prints and book illustrations were acceptable, as free from