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L'Apocalypse (Edition allemande) Les Sept Trompettes (Bartsch 68), GDUT4116

Albrecht Dürer

1496
Engraving

About This Work

God 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.

GodAngelsEagle of St. JohnSeven TrumpetsIncense AltarPersonified SunPersonified MoonWormwood (falling star)Burning Mountain73G3273G32211G211

Inscriptions

ve ve ve

AD

Translation

woe woe woe

Connected Texts

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.

Provenance & Source

Object

Medium

Engraving

GenreAI

religious

Digital Source

Source

Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Credit

https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/l-apocalypse-edition-allemande-les-sept-trompettes-bartsch-68#infos-principales

Usage Terms

Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication

Original Resolution

3626 × 5085 px

SHA-1

3726ca0fa24020e564c90384d7112cb5f748f8d4

Upload Date

June 26, 2023

Harvested

March 24, 2026

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