Advent and Triumph of Christ

Hans Memling's Advent and Triumph of Christ, painted around 1480 and formerly in the Boisserée Collection, is a panoramic narrative painting depicting the life of Christ from Nativity to Last Judgment in a continuous landscape. This sweeping approach to biblical narrative, combining multiple episodes in a single vast composition, was relatively unusual in Netherlandish painting. The Boisserée brothers were important early 19th-century collectors of medieval and early Netherlandish art.

Memling organizes the complex multi-scene narrative across a continuous landscape, using his refined oil technique to create a coherent spatial environment that unifies the disparate episodes through atmospheric perspective and consistent lighting.