L'Apocalypse (Edition latine) La Prostituée de Babylone (Bartsch 73), GDUT4127

A woman in opulent Renaissance dress sits upon a monstrous creature with seven heads, holding aloft a golden cup. To the left, a crowd including a king and a monk gazes at her, while in the sky above, an army of heavenly riders and a pointing angel appear amidst thick clouds. The scene is set against a coastal landscape where a fortified city is engulfed in smoke and flames.

Dürer’s Apocalypse series was a landmark in Western printmaking, translating complex prophetic imagery into a dense visual vocabulary that influenced centuries of visionary and millenarian thought. This work reflects the intense late-medieval preoccupation with divine revelation and the symbolic interpretation of historical collapse.