Jump to content

File:MantegnaDescentLimbo.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (2,204 × 2,000 pixels, file size: 602 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Andrea Mantegna: Descent into the limbo  wikidata:Q3208253 reasonator:Q3208253
Artist
Andrea Mantegna  (1431–1506)  wikidata:Q5681 q:it:Andrea Mantegna
 
Andrea Mantegna
Description Italian painter, copper engraver, illuminator, sculptor, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1431 Edit this at Wikidata 13 September 1506 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Isola Mantegna Edit this at Wikidata Mantua Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Padua, Mantua
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5681
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Christ's Descent into Limbo
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The first version, for Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga, Andrea Mantegna painted in June of 1468. This smaller one, which was probably done for Ferdinando Carlo, the last Duke of Mantua, around 1470–75. The conventional title given to the work, its workshop replicas and the engraving of it, Christ's Descent into Limbo, is a modern one.
Depicted people Jesus Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1470–75
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 38.8 cm (15.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 42.3 cm (16.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+38.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+42.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q18793192
Object history Lent to the Frick Museum, NYC from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection.
References
Source/Photographer en.wikipedia.org
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Descent into the limbo

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:37, 23 May 2018Thumbnail for version as of 22:37, 23 May 20182,204 × 2,000 (602 KB)ObinfoHigher resolution from https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-30-million-renaissance-masterpiece-was-found-1526909599
16:26, 30 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 16:26, 30 January 20101,700 × 1,497 (1.46 MB)Sailkolarger, better
14:51, 1 December 2007Thumbnail for version as of 14:51, 1 December 2007312 × 279 (83 KB)Shakko{{Information |Description=Andrea Mantegna, "Christ's Descent into Limbo'' oil on panel. The first version, for Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga, Andrea Mantegna painted in June of 1468. This smaller one, which was probably done for Ferdinando Carlo

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MantegnaDescentLimbo.jpg"