A bearded man, Jesus, strides from under an archway across a wooden door that lies flat along the ground as it pins and crushes a black beast in this vertical, framed panel. A crowd of people huddle inside the rocky cave, and everyone has pale skin faintly tinged with green. Jesus wears a bright, gold-patterned cloth draped over one shoulder and around his body. He holds a tall pole with a flag with a red cross on a white field with his left hand. His other clasps hands with an elderly man with gray hair and long white beard. Behind the elder man, a crowd of men and women kneel in front of…
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Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Descent into Limbo [right panel]

Andrea di Vanni (Sienese, c. 1330 - 1413)

1380s

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 47.2 × 25 cm (18 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.) ; overall: 56.7 × 29.2 × 3.3 cm (22 5/16 × 11 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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