Oil on oak panel, 176 x 78,9 cm (right wing)
Hans Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
Another detail
How can I tell you what really happened?
Tags: 1400, apocalypse, book, evangelist, hariberth, imagination, john, memling, saint, vision, writing
Showing posts with label revelations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revelations. Show all posts
MEMLING Hans St John Altarpiece (right wing) 1474-79
Oil on oak panel, 176 x 78,9 cm (right wing)
Hans Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
Another detail
How can I tell you what really happened?
Tags: 1400, apocalypse, book, evangelist, hariberth, imagination, john, memling, saint, vision, writing
Bamberg Apocalypse, Folio 1r, John receives his revelation, 1000-1020
To get an idea...
The Bamberg Apocalypse is an 11th century richly illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelations and a Gospel Lectionary. It was created in the scriptorium at Reichenau between 1000 and 1020. (Wikipedia)
Apocalypse of St. Sever, Rain of fire and blood, folio137v, c1050
A reign of blood and fire... violence and slaughter
The Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878) is a French Romanesque illuminated Apocalypse manuscript from the 11th Century. It was made at the Abbey of St. Sever in about 1050. It contains the commentary of Beatus of Liébana on the Book of Revelations.
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