Descent of Christ into Limbo
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Bermejo brought the north's oil into Aragon and used it for a realism that refuses to idealise anything, including the dead. This is one of four compartments of a predella on Christ the Redeemer, matched by the museum to a documented altarpiece for Santo Domingo de Silos at Daroca. Cèsar Favà and Mireia Mestre argue the four hung two by two, flanking a tabernacle, about 1474 to 1479. They were still together in a Paris collection in 1898; a sale in 1914 split them between two Barcelona buyers.
Sources: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 'Descent of Christ into Limbo', inv. 015872-000, purchase 1914; object page read 2026-08-27. · Cèsar Favà and Mireia Mestre, Àrea d'Art Medieval, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 'The panels of Christ the Redeemer by Bermejo', museum research post, 2 May 2019.
In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:
I Peter 3:19 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 5,345 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.