Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman Clothed with the Sun and The War in Heaven, c. 1295. France, Lorraine, 13th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 12 x cm (4 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.). The visionary text of St. John the Evangelist's Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament, inspired these images of salvation, sin, and divine retribution. A large number of illustrated volumes of the Apocalypse appeared in Northern Europe, especially in England, after the year 1240--perhaps reflecting a fear of the world's end. These miniatures come from a manuscript prod
Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman Clothed with the Sun and The War in Heaven, c. 1295. France, Lorraine, 13th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 12 x cm (4 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.). The visionary text of St. John the Evangelist's Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament, inspired these images of salvation, sin, and divine retribution. A large number of illustrated volumes of the Apocalypse appeared in Northern Europe, especially in England, after the year 1240--perhaps reflecting a fear of the world's end. These miniatures come from a manuscript produced in Lorraine, then artistically influenced by English models.
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