Albrecht Dürer1510
Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell)
Put to death in the body but made alive in the spirit, Christ descends to the realm of the dead to proclaim his victory to the spirits held there (1 Peter 3). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Large Passion (1510).
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer was a Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist whose four great biblical woodcut cycles — the Apocalypse (1498), the Large Passion (1497–1511), the Life of the Virgin (1503–1511), and the Small Passion (1509–1511) — defined Northern Renaissance religious imagery and shaped Reformation-era visual theology across Europe.