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Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman upon the Scarlet Beast and The Fall of Babylon

Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman upon the Scarlet Beast and The Fall of Babylon

c. 1295
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Sheet: 10.2 x 14.7 cm (4 x 5 13/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1983.73.1
Location: not on view

Description

The visionary text of Saint John the Evangelist's Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament, inspired these images of salvation, sin, and divine retribution. A large number of illustrated volumes of the Apocalypse appeared in Northern Europe, especially in England, after the year 1240, perhaps reflecting a fear of the world's end.
  • -1819
    Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1759-1819), Basel, passed to his descendants
    25 April 1983
    Sale: Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 60
    1983-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Freyham, R. "Joachism and the English Apocalypse," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes XVIII (1955). p. 244, note 2
    De Winter, Patrick M. “Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval England and France.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (1983). pp. 396–417 www.jstor.org
    Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts. 1983. Lot 60, p. 36
    Morgan, Neil, "The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse," in Ayers, Tim. Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1982-83 : Two Hundred and Forty-Nineth Season. Totowa, N.J.: Sotheby Publications, 1983. pp. 162-169
    Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 180-185, no. 65
  • Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
    Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-August 23, 1987).
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