Descent into Hell
Jacopo Gnisci
General description
A miniature showing Jesus↗ in the act of freeing Adam↗ and Eve↗ from Hell, an episode alluded to in the New Testament and expanded upon in the apocrypha, typically featuring him in the act of trampling over Satan or a personification of Hades↗ .
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Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Anastasis. Kartsonis, A. D. 1986. Anastasis: The Making of an Image (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986).
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Chojnacki, S. 2009. Christ’s Resurrection in Ethiopian Painting, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 282 (Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2009).
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Alessandro Bausi, Jacopo Gnisci, ʻDescent into Hellʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 7.11.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/authority-files/AT1008Descent [Accessed: 2024-03-29+01:00]
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- Jacopo Gnisci Jacopo Gnisci: Created entity on 7.11.2017