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Scenes from the life of Christ
Also titled Scènes uit het leven van Christus
c. 1435
- Medium
- canvas, panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 110.1 cm x width 173.3 cm x height 33 cm x width 27.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Unfolding before us like a cartoon strip are eighteen scenes from the life of Christ. The painting thus becomes a visual résumé of Christian redemption: the salvation of mankind through the death and resurrection of God’s son. It begins at top left with the Annunciation and the Nativity and finishes at bottom right with the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
