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Original fileGod sits enthroned in the heavens, surrounded by seven angels with trumpets and one angel offering incense at a golden altar. Below, personified celestial bodies watch as apocalyptic disasters—including a burning mountain and the falling star Wormwood—strike a coastal landscape and its ships. An eagle flies through the center of the sky crying out a warning of the woes yet to come.
This work captures the millenarian fever of the late 15th century, translating the complex visionary prose of St. John into a definitive visual language that influenced both the Reformation and later esoteric interpretations of prophecy.
ve ve ve AD
Translation
woe woe woe
Book of Revelation
The primary source text for this series, which Dürer illustrated with unprecedented detail and fidelity.
Nuremberg Chronicle
Produced in the same cultural milieu, sharing the late-medieval obsession with the seven ages of the world and the impending apocalypse.
Object
Engraving
religious
Digital Source
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https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/l-apocalypse-edition-allemande-les-sept-trompettes-bartsch-68#infos-principales
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June 26, 2023
March 24, 2026
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