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Title: Devils Taking the Rich Man to Hell, No. 4 from the Series of 5 Prints "Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"
Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Artist Life Dates: 1502- circa 1561
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1554
Accession Number: 1952/1.87
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
relevance: rank 11.37481
Primary Keywords: earthmoving; boars; death; devils; hell; men; snakes; trees

Title: Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists
Artist: Artist Unknown, Greece
Physical Description: This small carved boxwood cross is divided on each face into five compartments containing Christian religious scenes. The cross is set in a stand decorated with mother-of-pearl and green glass-paste stones.
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 1650-1800
Accession Number: 1961/1.177
Medium and Support: boxwood with pearls and glass-paste stones
relevance: rank 11.37481
Primary Keywords: baptisms; christianity; crosses (objects); crucifixions; greece (nation); hell

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Title: Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell) from "The Small Woodcut Passion"
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description: A group of figures at the left stand in a vaulted space under a cross. They look towards the lower right of the composition where a man holding a standard with a cross on top is bending forward and offering his hand to an old bearded man in an arched doorway. Above the doorway are several fantastical figures with beaked or animal heads and arms with claws.
Artist Life Dates: Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century: Early 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1509-1511
Accession Number: 2011/2.55
Medium and Support: woodcut print on laid paper
relevance: rank 10.37282
Primary Keywords: adam; christ; crosses (objects); eve; hell; new testament; passion (of christ); people in religion; satan

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