Christ with Saint Philip and Saint Peter
Unknown artist
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1999
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1920 mm
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 128788
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Christ with Saint Philip and Saint Peter (The Harrowing of Hell/Before the Descent into Limbo) by an Unknown artist, 19th/20th century. Inscribed on the scrolls: (pontio pilate descendit ad inferos [...] ascendit in c[a]elum, sedet ad dextram [Dei Patris omni] - [Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine] passus sub Pontio Pilato, [crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus] descendit ad inferna, [tertia die resurrexit a mortuis] ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram [Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos] = Jesus Christ ...suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. (Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol. 2, p. 45). A very large and fragile canvas of a biblical scene from the Acts of Pilate; Creed from the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus which depicts three men in a landscape.
Credit line
Knole, The Sackville Collection
Makers and roles
Unknown artist, artist