Scenes from the Passion of Christ is a painting by Flemish artist Hans Memling.
The Passion is the Christian theological term used for the events and suffering – physical, spiritual, and mental – of Jesus in the hours before and including his... trial and execution by crucifixion. The Crucifixion of Jesus is an event central to Christian beliefs. The etymological origins of the word lie in the Greek verb paschō, to suffer, from passages such as Matthew and Acts 1:3. The Latin word passio is used with reference to Christ's mortal suffering in the Vulgate. The term first appears in 2nd century Christian texts precisely to describe the travails and suffering of Jesus in this present context. The word passion has since taken on a more general application and now also describes the accounts of Christian martyrs. The term the Agony of Jesus is more specifically applied to the Agony in the Garden Jesus' action praying before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane; similarly to passion, agony has been extended to denote a frame of mind. Those parts of the four Gospels that describe these events are known as the "Passion narratives". The non-canonical Gospel of Peter is also a Passion narrative.more
Hans Memling was a German-born painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. From the 1460s until the end of his life he became one of the leading artists, painting both portraits and several large religious works, continuing the style he learned in his youth from his masters such as Rogier van der Weyden. Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling... served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden . He then went to Bruges around 1465. There is a story that he was wounded at the Battle of Nancy, sheltered and cured by the Hospitallers at Bruges and that to show his gratitude he refused payment for a picture he had painted for them. Memling did indeed paint for the Hospitallers in 1479 and 1480 and it is likely that he was known to the patrons of St John prior to the Battle of Nancy. Memling's name appears on a list of subscribers to the loan raised by Maximilian I of Austria, to defend against hostilities towards France in 1480.more
The Savoyan Gallery is an art collection in Turin, Italy, which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries. The museum, whose first directors were Roberto and Massimo d'Azeglio, unites the art collection of Eugene of Savoy, acquired after his death by his cousin, the king of Sardinia, with the works from the Royal Palace of Turin, the picture gallery of the Savoy-Carignano, and the artworks from the... Palazzo Durazzo of Genoa, acquired in 1824. On October 2, 1832 King Charles Albert of Savoy inaugurated the royal gallery at the Palazzo Madama, containing 365 paintings. In 1865, Massimo d'Azeglio had the collection transferred to Guarino Guarini's Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze where it stands today, alongside with the Egyptian Museum. The collection is slated to be relocated to the 19th-century wing of the Royal Palace of Turin in 2012.more