Hieronymus Bosch - Christ's Descent into Hell - fine art print

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Bosch’s fiery hell scenes remained enormously popular throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. A vast, desolate landscape with a burning city at the right and the river Styx at the left is the setting for this nightmarish vision, in which Christ breaks down the gates of hell to rescue the souls of the just. Gesturing in supplication towards him, Adam and Eve kneel on top of a ruinous tower. Behind them, Old Testament figures climb the winding stairs from the depths of hell, among them Abraham and Isaac with the sacrificial ram, and Noah with a model of the ark.

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The painting was created by Hieronymus Bosch. The work of art was painted with the size: 21 x 46 in (53,3 x 116,8 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on wood. Today, the artwork is in the the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This masterpiece, which is in the public domain is being included - courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. Besides, the artwork has the creditline: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 2 : 1, which means that the length is two times longer than the width. Hieronymus Bosch was a male painter, draftsman from the Netherlands, whose artistic style can be classified as Northern Renaissance. The Dutch artist lived for a total of 71 years, born in the year 1445 and passed away in 1516.

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