The Descent of Christ Into Limbo — after Pieter Bruegel

The Descent of Christ Into Limbo

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.
SKU: TRG-PRINT-UNF-METM-383050 Categories: , Tags: , , , Artist: Bruegel, Pieter
Tags: Fantasy, Figures, Jesus, Religious

Description

The Descent of Christ into Limbo sets a central circle of light within an astonishingly crowded, monstrous world. Christ and surrounding figures stand within this clearer space, while snarling forms, strange creatures and small processions fill the landscape around them. The contrast makes the central passage feel distinct without separating it completely from the tumult. The eye continually moves between the religious subject and the fantastic forms enclosing it.

Pieter van der Heyden engraved the image after Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s design, with Hieronymus Cock as publisher. Its intricate line allows darkness and grotesque invention to become tangible without needing the color of a painting. The image combines a Christian subject with a visual world of instability and menace. Its force lies in that opposition: a concentrated presence of light is surrounded by details that resist order and invite prolonged, uneasy looking.

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Medium/Technique

Giclée Print
Support

Canvas, Paper

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