Status Currently Off View Department Prints and Drawings Artist Jan Sadeler, the Elder Title Christ in Limbo, from Passion of Christ Origin Flanders Date Artist's working dates 1570–1600 Medium Engraving in black on ivory laid paper Dimensions 162 × 113 mm (plate) 172 × 124 mm (sheet) Credit Line The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection Reference Number 1942.264 IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online. Infernal subjects such as Christ in Limbo, an episode described in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, were vividly explored by the Flemish painter Hieronymous. Please note your bid limit has been reached. The heavy wooden door, once concealed within a rock, has been thrust open. Kress Collection via National Gallery of Art) Christ stands in an open doorway leading to some sort of liminal space. A superb, dark impression from the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts overall. Select from premium Christ In Limbo of the highest quality.
Bannered staff in hand, Christ reaches toward a few of the worthy souls sequestered in Limbo until his Resurrection while avoiding the hovering demons above and lurking below. This is a 15th-century painting by Benvenuto di Giovanni titled 'Christ in Limbo.' (CNS photo/Samuel H. Find the perfect Christ In Limbo stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. The term 'Limbo of the Fathers' was a medieval name for the part of the underworld ( Hades) where the patriarchs of the Old Testament were believed to be kept until Christ's soul. In this work the oval format has been utilized to show Christ emerging triumphantly from the jaws of Hell, rendered in a style akin to that of Hieronymus Bosch-the eyes of the gaping beast curl out from two sinuous monsters biting their own tails. The 'Limbo of the Patriarchs' or 'Limbo of the Fathers' (Latin limbus patrum) is seen as the temporary state of those who, despite the sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God but could not enter Heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.
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