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  • Title: Scenes from the Passion of Christ
  • Creator: Memling, Hans, painter
  • Description: Episodes from Christ’s Passion appear here, numbering 23 in the entire painting. This work allows the viewer to follow the Stations of the Cross from a single location. One of the donors, Maria Baroncelli, prays in the lower corner. Figures such as this were considered able to pray in the place of the donors themselves, and in perpetuity.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Donor Portraits Jesus Christ- Passion in Art Prayer
  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 15
  • Date: ca. 1471
  • Related Work: Portraits of Maria Baroncelli and her husband Tommaso Portinari by Hans Memling http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collection
  • Current Location: Turin, Galleria Sabauda
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Paintings
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Oil; Wood
  • Donor: Layman and laywoman; Tommaso Portinari and his wife, Maria Baroncelli
  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 92 cm/ 36.2"/57 cm/ 22.4"/
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