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Abstract. The work is devoted to the history of passion genre in the European music. The article analyzes the original selection of image-bearing spheres in the process of the genre formation. Three opposed spheres are considered: the Evangelist’s narrative, the words of Christ and other characters of the passion plot. The interpretation of these image-bearing spheres can be traced in different periods of the genre existence. The conclusion is made about interrelation between different layers of meaning and the methods of creative thinking as one of the characteristic features of passion genre.

Key words and phrases: жанр пассиона, сюжет Страстей Христовых в искусстве, псалмодические пассионы, ораториальные пассионы, типы художественного мышления, художественная многоплановость, passion genre, plot of Christ’s Passion in art, psalmodic passions, oratorial passions, types of creative thinking, artistic diversity