Christ's Descent into Hell
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
21 x 46 in. (53.3 x 116.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.244
Tags
OwlsFireChristHell
About the Artist
Hieronymus Bosch · 1450–1516
Considered the most distinctive and idiosyncratic of 15th-century Netherlandish artists, he produced a body of work remarkable for its depiction of fantastic, often diabolic, creatures, generally moralizing representations of the consequences of sin and folly. He was the first European artist to give free rein to almost uncontrolled association, formal inventivity, and free choice of ideas. Commen...