Cleveland Museum of Art
Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The War in Heaven
- Date
- c. 1295
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- France, Lorraine
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 151528
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Sotheby's, London sale, 25 April 1983, lot 50 | Sotheby's, London sale, 25 April 1983, lot 50
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