Picturing the apocalypse : the book of revelation in the arts over two millennia / Natasha O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hear, Natasha, author.

O'Hear, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in art.

Bible. Revelation--Illustrations.

Bible.

Bible. Revelation--In art.

Bible. Revelation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous angels of the Apocalypse have captured the popular imagination. One can hardly open a newspaper or click on a news site without reading about impending financial orclimate-change Armageddon, while the concept of the Four Horsemen pervades popular music, gaming, and satire. Yet few people know muc

Contents:

Cover; Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts Over two Millennia; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; List of Tables; Introduction: Revelation: Meanings and Interpretations; Revelation: relevant for today? ; Outline of Revelation; One narrative or many? Finding a way into Revelation; Revelation and the end times; Revelation as an inspiration to art; Key works of art referred to in this book; The Trier Apocalypse; The Beatus Apocalypses; The Anglo-Norman Apocalypses; The Angers Apocalypse Tapestry

The Flemish ApocalypseThe Ghent Altarpiece; Memling's St John Altarpiece; The Apocalypse series of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach ; William Blake's Apocalypse images; Max Beckmann; 1: The Angel of the Apocalypse: John's Journey and his Angelic Guides; John's prophetic commission; The vision of the heavenly throne room; The mighty angel (Rev. 10); Warrior angels; Angels in the New Jerusalem; Conclusion; 2: The Lamb ; The Lamb in Revelation; The Lamb in visual imagery; Medieval visualizations of the Lamb; Later visualizations of the Lamb; The Lamb in music; Conclusion; 3: The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen in RevelationThe Four Horsemen in visual imagery; Medieval images; Dürer and Cranach and the Four Horsemen; The Four Horsemen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; The Four Horsemen in twentieth-century satire; Conclusion; 4: The Seven Seals: Angelic Destruction; Revelation's sequences of seven; Depictions of the sequences of seven; The Seven Seals; The Trinity Apocalypse; El Greco; Danby's The Opening of the Sixth Seal; The Seventh Seal; The Seven Trumpets; The Trinity Apocalypse; Dürer and the Seven Trumpets; Coppola's Apocalypse Now; The Seven Bowls

The Flemish ApocalypseConclusion; 5: The Woman Clothed with the Sun ; The Woman Clothed with the Sun in Revelation ; Imagery of the Woman Clothed with the Sun ; Medieval visualizations; The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Velázquez, Blake, Redon; Twentieth-century visualizations; Conclusion; 6: The Satanic Trinity ; Interpreting the Beasts; The Beasts in visual imagery; Medieval Beasts; The Beasts in the Renaissance: Antichrist and the church; The papal Beast: the Beasts and the Reformation; William Blake and the Beasts of Revelation; The Beasts and modernity; Conclusion

7: The Whore of BabylonInterpreting the Whore of Babylon; The Whore of Babylon in visual imagery; Medieval interpretations; Renaissance and Reformation visualizations; Blake and modern interpretations; Conclusion; 8: Armageddon, the Millennium, and the Last Judgement ; Armageddon; Images of Armageddon; Medieval visualizations of Armageddon; Modern visualizations of Armageddon; The Millennium; Images of the Millennium; The Last Judgement; Images of the Last Judgement; Conclusion; 9: The New Jerusalem; The meaning of the New Jerusalem; Visualizations of the New Jerusalem

The New Jerusalem as cathedral

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical refererences and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-100296-8

0-19-100295-X

OCLC:

912421317