The Passion: Christ in Limbo
c. 1480
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 16.5 × 11.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-196565
Martin Schongauer's series The Passion of Christ was his largest set of engravings, made around 1480, and extensively copied across Europe. It consists of 12 prints detailing the suffering of Christ in the last days of his life. Schongauer's version focuses on crowded scenes, grotesque physiognomies of Christ's tormentors, and great pathos in the compositions. Here, Schongauer represented the episode in which Christ, between his death and resurrection, descended into Limbo to bring salvation to the righteous ones who had died before him. Christ majestically strides over a vanquished demon cru…
Provenance
Stone Memorial Fund, 2015.20
Registry history
- c. 1480 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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