God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels (central panel)
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
Sizes
About this painting
Memling vests him for the liturgy, not a vision. An alb; over it a red cope worked in gold thread, pearls and precious stones; a tiara, claiming heaven and earth at once. On the alb's collar, in Greek: Agyos o Theos, Holy God — the Good Friday acclamation, sung at the veneration of the Cross. He holds a crystal globe with a cross reflected in it: the world, delivered by the Cross.
Sixteen angels make music beside him. Don Gonzalo, prior of Nájera, ordered it from Flanders in 1483 and died having paid 6,500 maravedís of the 239,383 it cost.
Sources: Restoration of 'Christ with singing and music-making Angels', Flemish Primitives webpublications, Study Centre for Flemish Primitives · KMSKA, Antwerp, masterpiece page, 'God the Father with singing and music-making angels' · Bart Fransen, "Hans Memling's Nájera altarpiece: new documentary evidence," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 160, no. 1379 (2018), pp. 101–105. · Roman Missal, Good Friday: the Adoration of the Holy Cross, Improperia (Trisagion)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 24,402 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.