Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Hans Memling's Scenes from the Passion of Christ, painted around 1470 and now in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin, is a panoramic narrative painting depicting multiple Passion episodes across a continuous cityscape. The work compresses Christ's entire Passion into a single view of Jerusalem, with events from the Entry into Jerusalem through the Resurrection unfolding simultaneously across the urban landscape. This continuous narrative technique has medieval origins but Memling renders it with unprecedented spatial coherence.

Memling organizes the complex multi-scene Passion narrative within a coherent urban landscape, using careful perspective and consistent lighting to create a unified spatial environment across the numerous simultaneous episodes.