The Angel Shows Saint John the New Jerusalem

The illumination features a brown-toned background with an oval, fortified wall structure containing six towers with red-domed roofs. Inside the city walls, the Agnus Dei—a lamb with a cruciform halo—stands on a patterned base. Below the city, an angel with large feathered wings and a halo stands on a rocky outcrop, holding a thin rod; the angel reaches out to grasp the hand of Saint John the Evangelist, who has shoulder-length dark hair, a halo, and wears a purple mantle over a white tunic. The figures are rendered with thick outlines and flat, muted colors common to Ottonian manuscript illumination.

This folio is from the Bamberg Apocalypse, a key manuscript of Ottonian art commissioned for the Holy Roman Emperor, illustrating the visions described in the Book of Revelation. It reflects the theological focus on the eschatological city of God as interpreted during the transition of the first millennium.