L'Apocalypse (Edition latine) Le Dragon à sept têtes et la Bête aux cornes d'agneau (Bartsch 74), GDUT4129

A divine figure wearing a triple crown sits enthroned in the clouds holding a sharp sickle, flanked by angels. Below, a monstrous seven-headed beast wearing multiple crowns emerges on the right, while a beast with ram-like horns stands on the left before a group of kneeling people, including a king. The scene captures the eschatological moment of the 'harvest of the earth' and the arrival of the Antichrist's agents.

Dürer's Apocalypse series was the first book in history designed and published by an artist, reflecting the intense millenarian anxiety of the pre-Reformation era. Its imagery of cosmic struggle and prophetic fulfillment deeply influenced later esoteric traditions, particularly the Rosicrucian and Behmenist visions of spiritual transformation and the coming 'New Age'.