Descent into Limbo is a 1492 tempera and gold on panel painting by Andrea Mantegna, formerly in the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection in Princeton, New Jersey.

It had been considered lost for centuries, but was authenticated and included in an important exhibition on the artist at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992.

It left the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection when it was auctioned in 2003, fetching $25.5 million [1].

The painting had previously been loaned to the Frick Collection in New York; it is said that the intention was to sell it to the museum, but the deal fell through due to disagreements over the price.

Studies for the catalogue Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Dipinti Italiani del Trecento e del Quattrocento (edited by Giovanni Valagussa), included a painting owned by the Accademia Carrara (Bergamo) from 1866.