Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

Main name
Сошествие во ад
1933
tempera on canvas
68×75 cm
25900 КП
5564 II
Location of the works
The State Museum of Oriental Art

The Descent of Jesus Christ to Hell is a dogma according to which, after the crucifixion, Jesus Christ descended to hell, liberated the souls imprisoned therein and brought from the hell all the Old Testament righteous, as well as Adam and Eve. Like in the painting “Buddha the Investigator”, the artist placed the preacher in the underwater world. But unlike the previous picture, its dirty red color tells us about a world of lower passions, inhabited by ugly figures, symbols of human vices.