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Original fileDouce Apocalypse - Bodleian Ms180 - p.089 Judgment
This medieval illumination depicts Christ seated in a red mandorla, holding an open book and raising his right hand in benediction. He is flanked by groups of resurrected, naked figures appearing in various states of emergence or prayer. To the left, a large, seated, bearded male figure rests his chin on his hand, observing the scene. In the foreground, two dark, cavernous hellmouths contain demonic, ape-like figures, while a line of naked human figures stands in a central green area between them, looking upward toward Christ.
This illumination is part of the Douce Apocalypse, a significant 13th-century manuscript illustrating the Revelation of John, central to medieval eschatological thought and the iconography of the End Times.
Book of Revelation
The manuscript serves as an illustrated commentary on the final chapters of the Apocalypse of John.
Object
illumination
parchment
Gothic
English
manuscript-illumination
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1157 × 878 px
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