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Christ's Descent into Hell — Follower of Hieronymus Bosch
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Christ's Descent into Hell

Follower of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, second quarter 16th century)
Date ca. 1550–60 (objectBeginDate 1550, objectEndDate 1560)
Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Subject The Life of Christ
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,788 px
License PD/CC0

Sizes

11×14 in$59
sheet 14×11 in · image 14×6.4 in · archival margin · 271 dpi
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About this painting

Noah is carrying his ark. He climbs a winding stair out of the depths behind Abraham and Isaac with the sacrificial ram, while Adam and Eve kneel on top of a ruined tower with their hands out in supplication. That is the doctrine in one detail — the first parents at the top of the wreckage, waiting to be collected. A burning city to the right, a plain littered with bones to the left. The Harrowing appears in no gospel. It is in the Creed.

Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'Christ's Descent into Hell', Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, accession 26.244; read 2026-08-27.

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

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,788 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.