# Descent into Limbo [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CANO, Alonso]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 169 x 121 cm ## Commentary Descent into Limbo c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 169 x 121 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles From 1640 on, Cano's technique became increasingly pictorial, that is to say, increasingly Baroque, acquiring some of the subtleties he had previously ignored. Perhaps his most important painting is the Descent into Limbo \(in the County Museum, Los Angeles\), a strange, rather illustrative composition, anecdotal in the movement imparted to the figures, but including one of the rare, and one of the most beautiful female nudes in Spanish art. ## Related artworks - [Crucifixion]() - [Eve]() - [Exterior view]() - [Immaculate Conception]() - [Mary]() - [Noli me Tangere]() - [Saint John the Evangelist's Vision of Jerusalem \(detail\)]() - [Saint John the Evangelist's Vision of Jerusalem]() - [St James the Greater]() - [St John the Baptist]() - [St John the Evangelist on Pathmos]() - [St John the Evangelist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()