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Descent into Limbo (Beccafumi)

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it is one of the last works commissioned from the artist by the Beccafumi Marsili family for their family chapel at the
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guides the souls, whilst at the bottom is a river divinity. To the left is a figure holding a cross, possibly
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in Siena. Damaged by a fire in 1655, the painting was seen by
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the good thief, for whom a preparatory head study is in the
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It shows Christ descending to the souls in Limbo, including
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Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor
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in the centre, a nude Eve to the right and between them
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This article about a sixteenth-century painting is a
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Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah
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Christ in Limbo (Beccafumi)

Italian Renaissance
Domenico Beccafumi
Pinacoteca Nazionale
Siena
Basilica of San Francesco
Giorgio Vasari
Mannerism
Adam
King David
John the Baptist
Dismas
Morgan Library and Museum
Uffizi
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Domenico Beccafumi
Trinity Triptych
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi)
Bellanti Madonna
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata
Saint Paul Enthroned
Marcia
Tanaquil
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek)

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