The War of the Angels, from the Apocalypse of Beatus, Saints-Sever (Gascony), between 1928 and 1072. Illuminated manuscript, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. In a series of images the painter laid out the various events of the War in First was the encounter and what ensued, then, with victory won, the Beast and one of its symbolic allies imprisoned in Hell.

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The War of the Angels, from the Apocalypse of Beatus, Saints-Sever (Gascony), between 1928 and 1072. Illuminated manuscript, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. In a series of images the painter laid out the various events of the War in First was the encounter and what ensued, then, with victory won, the Beast and one of its symbolic allies imprisoned in Hell.

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