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| Keywords: Russian - Icon of the Descent into Hell - Walters 371074.jpg The composition of this icon is known as Anastasis or the Harrowing of Hell and it is the traditional iconographic representation of the Resurrection Christ standing on Hell's broken gates pulls Adam and Eve out from their tombs with crowds of Old Testament kings and other biblical figures behind them The crowned figure on Christ's left is Zachariah holding a scroll that reads Blessed is Christ appears again at the bottom of the frame leading a group of souls out of Hell as angels beat down hapless demons The icon is painted in the style of the 16th or 17th century and a spurious Andrei Rublev signature likely added later tries to pass it off as even older The gilt metal frame is studded with painted enamels whose European style clashes somewhat with the dimensionless traditional style of the icon At the corners are the four evangelists each with the apocalyptical beast with which he is associated The other enamels show the Carrying of the Cross the Annunciation the severed head of John the Baptist and the Holy Family with a toddler John the Baptist Strings of river pearls and large mother-of-pearl stones also decorate the frame or oklad Such a real pearl border was recalled in later enamel oklads by means of white enamel dots Icon 19th century; Frame 18th century Modern tempera on wood metal gilt painted enamel on copper river pearls mother-of-pearl cm 39 7 32 7 accession number 37 1074 2681 Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Spurious signature Andrei Rublev Russian Art Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1959-1960 Artful Deception The Craft of the Forger The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Edsel Eleanor Ford House Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art Columbia; Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison; Crocker Art Museum Sacramento; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester; The Barnum Museum Bridgeport 1987-1992 Russian Enamels The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996-1997 place of origin Russia Walters Art Museum license 3D Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Religious art in Russia Art of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian icons in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Icons of the harrowing of hell | ||||
