Descent into Purgatory

Albrecht Dürer.
Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata cum varii generis carminibus Fratris Benedicti Chelidonii Musophili.

Nuremberg: Albrecht Dürer, 1511. (11012)

In the woodcut of Christ’s Descent into Purgatory, the deceased Savior moves in spirit to the gates of Hell, where he frees the long-suffering souls Adam and Eve, Moses, and St. John the Baptist.

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