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Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman upon the Scarlet Beast and The Fall of Babylon

Date: c. 1295
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture: France, Lorraine
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 151523

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The visionary text of Saint 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.

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance: -1819: Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1759-1819), Basel, passed to his descendants | 25 April 1983: Sale: Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 60 | 1983-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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