Christ's Descent into Limbo Christ's Descent into Limbo Christ's Descent into Limbo Christ Descending into Limbo, from a Passion Altar, Christ with the signs of his suffering, three-quarters to the right, leaning slightly forward with his upper body. He stands on the right leg and with the left bent on the fallen door of the Limbo, under which a toad-shaped devil is crushed. He has stretched out his left hand to Adam, who emerges from the flames of the open mouth of the mouth with the left leg and grabs with both hands at the hand given to him. Behind him two from two flames emerge a man and Eve in a praying position, followed by two bearded men, perhaps prophets. Behind Christ there are two angels, the one in profile and with curly short hair looks up at him full of attention, the other in the background turns with a smile to the former, who holds the left arm in front of the chest and embraces an object lost with the right, from the surrounding angel the entire left arm is hidden under the hood, he holds the right hand out to the angel in the foreground. The group is located on an elongated floor, which becomes a loose base. Christ has a wide mantle, which hangs over the left leg and arm, over the back and in a bend under the curved right arm, runs over the chest, leaving the wound visible in its side, which is then thrown back over the left shoulder. The angel in the foreground wears two long robes over each other and around the neck a collar or amict, the other, with a band around her hair, wears a choir hood with ditto collar or amict over the albe, Christ leaving hell: he liberates patriarchs, prophets, kings and other persons from hell, among them Adam, Eve, Moses, David, and John the Baptist, anonymous, Southern Netherlands, c. 1440, oak (wood), gilding, group: h 48.5 cm (incl. plinth) altar caisse: h 97.8 cm (BK-1964-2-C) × w 60.5 cm (BK-1964-2-C) × d 22.3 cm (BK-1964-2-C)
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