# Sixteen Gospel Scenes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BENING, Simon]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Parchment on board, 68 x 53 mm \(each scene\) ## Commentary Simon Bening, Alexander Bening's son, was also an accomplished manuscript painter and is well known for his technical innovations in the art of storytelling. One of his narrative cycles included sixty-four miniatures on the life of Christ. Today, the densely packed parchment pages are rearranged on four panels in the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore. Each panel of the so-called Stein Polyptych includes sixteen images. The present panel is the second of the series with depictions from the Baptism to the Arrest of Christ. The individual scenes are tightly cropped, producing dramatic close-ups. ## Related artworks - [Beatty Rosary]() - [Beatty Rosary]() - [Beatty Rosary]() - [Flemish Calendar]() - [Flemish Calendar]() - [Flemish Calendar]() - [Flower Book of Hours]() - [Flower Book of Hours]() - [Genealogy of the Infante Dom Fernando of Portugal]() - [Genealogy of the Infante Dom Fernando of Portugal]() - [Henry III, Count of Nassau-Breda and Mencía de Mendoza]() - [Landscape with St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()