Titelprent met Johannes de Evangelist en Maria met het Christuskind

Saint John sits upon a cloud with his attribute, the eagle, holding a pen and inkpot as he records his divine visions. Opposite him, the Virgin Mary is shown as the 'Woman Clothed with the Sun,' crowned and standing upon a crescent moon while holding the infant Christ. The scene is set beneath an elaborate Gothic title that flourishes with calligraphic ornamentation.

Published in 1498 and reissued in 1511, Dürer's 'Apocalypse' was the first book in history to be both published and illustrated by an artist. It represents a foundational moment in the Western visionary tradition, providing a definitive visual language for the prophetic and eschatological themes that would later permeate Rosicrucian and alchemical mysticism.