Commentary On The Apocalypse - Gallery

Gallery

• Escorial Beatus, f. 108v: Worship of the beast and dragon

• Osma Beatus, f. 139: The Frogs

• Facundus Beatus, f. 191v: The Dragon gives his power to the Beast

• Urgell Beatus, f. 82v: Noah's Ark

• The world map from the Saint-Sever Beatus measuring 37 X 57 cm. This was painted c. 1050 as an illustration to Beatus' work at the Abbey of Saint-Sever in Aquitaine, on the order of Gregori de Montaner, Abbot from 1028 to 1072

• Valladolid Beatus, f. 120: The Angel of the Fifth Trumpet: "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit" (Revelation, 9.1)

• Facundus Beatus, f. 224 (detail): "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, and upon her forehead a name written: «Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of earth.»" (Revelation, 17.4-5)

• Facundus Beatus, f. 186v: '"And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in Heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads" (Revelation, 12.1-3)

• Morgan Beatus, f. 112: The opening of the Sixth Seal: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood" (Revelation, 6.12)

• Facundus Beatus, f. 6v: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation, 1.8)

• Facundus Beatus, f. 240: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called «Faithful» and «True», and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God." (Revelation, 19.11)

• Osma Beatus, f. 151 The victorious Christ

• Urgell Beatus, f. 209 (detail): Siege of Jerusalem by Nebudchadnezzar

• Facundus Beatus, f°43v, The great Theophany

• Urgell Beatus, f°198v-199 The new Jerusalem, the river of life

• Facundus Beatus, f°253v The new Jerusalem

• Beatus de Valladolid, f°93 The four horsemen

• Facundus Beatus, f°135 The four horsemen

• Facundus Beatus, f°171v The monstrous beasts

• Facundus Beatus, f°145 The elect and the angels restraining the winds