The Second Horseman of the Apocalypse (Bamberg Apocalypse)

A man with dark hair sits atop a brown horse, gripping a long, unsheathed sword diagonally across his body with both hands. He wears a yellow tunic with dark embroidered collars and sleeves, and light-colored leggings. To the right, the Agnus Dei (the Lamb of God) is suspended in the air; it possesses a cruciform halo and rests its front hooves upon a closed, rectangular book. The background is a solid, dark brown field above a flat, lighter ground line, with the figures presented in a stylized, two-dimensional manner typical of Ottonian manuscript illumination.

This illumination is a primary visual interpretation of the Book of Revelation (6:3-4) found in the Bamberg Apocalypse, a masterpiece of the Ottonian Renaissance produced in the scriptorium at Reichenau Abbey.