Saturday, October 28, 2023

The Apocalypse

Seems topical. Above, an illustration to Beatus of Liebana's Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. Sever, from the "Morgan Beatus," ca. 960.


Dürer, the Four Horsemen, 1498


The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers, c. 1375

Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse, 1796, detail

Laurent d'Orléans, Beast of the Apocalypse La Somme le Roi, Paris ca. 1295

Catya Shok, the Four Horsemen, contemporary

Dürer, The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals

The Dragon and the Beast, from a copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. Sever made for the royal family of Castile in the 11th century.

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