Hell Scene Inspired by Bosch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 2007

Christ's Descent into Hell
Style of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, about 1550–60)
Oil on wood; 21 x 46 in. (53.3 x 116.8 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.244)

The panel was painted during a Bosch revival in the sixteenth century, when the artist's fiery scenes of hell were enormously popular throughout Europe, and especially in Italy, where they were prized for their nightmarish and visionary qualities.

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