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The Fifth Vessel: The Slandering of God

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Date: about 1255–1260
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, colored washes, pen and ink
Culture: English
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

>The fifth angel poured out its vessel upon the seat of the beast, and its kingdom became dark, and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain: and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and wounds, and they did not do penance for their works. >(Apocalypse 16:10-11) The illuminator depicted the seat of the beast as covered with a blue cloth. The angel pours out the darkness from a vessel. The wicked, upon whom the darkness is falling like a curtain, gnaw their swollen tongues, even as they blaspheme God above because of their pains.

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