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Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Date unknown

Medium

Oil on wood

Tags

Owls Fire Christ Hell

Dimensions

21 x 46 in. (53.3 x 116.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Hieronymus Bosch

1440–1516 • Southern Netherlands

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. Comment on works: Allegory

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