Advent and Triumph of Christ
Hans Memling · 1480
Why it's great
Dozens of tiny scenes of Jesus's life run through a wide landscape, with towns, roads and trees across the picture. Hans Memling painted this in about 1480, and it is like a big storybook page.
Where to see it
📍 Alte Pinakothek, upper floor, gallery IMaxvorstadt, Germany
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Hans Memling was born in Germany in about 1435 and became the most successful painter in Bruges, in what is now Belgium. His calm, sweet and beautifully detailed religious pictures and portraits were bought by rich merchants and bankers from all over Europe. He died in Bruges in 1494.
