Scenes from the Passion of Christ [SEP] creator
Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Scenes from the Passion of Christ is an oil painting on a panel of Baltic oak, painted c.1470 by German-born Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. The painting shows 23 vignettes of the "Life of Christ" combined in one narrative composition without a central dominating scene: 19 episodes from the Passion of Christ, the Resurrection, and 3 later appearances of the risen Christ (to Mary Magdalene, on the road to Emmaus, and at the Sea of Galilee). The painting was
has a cycle from 432–430 on the birth and infancy of Christ together with other scenes from the "Life of the Virgin", the dedicatee of the church. Sant'Appollinare Nuovo in Ravenna has cycles on opposite walls of the "Works" and "Passion" of Christ from the early 6th century. The "Passion" is notable for still not containing, among its thirteen scenes, a Crucifixion, and the "Works" contains eight miracles in its thirteen scenes. Neither of these features was to be typical of later art