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DescriptionPicturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia – 25 Jun 2015 by Natasha O'Hear (Author), Anthony O'Hear (Author) ~BinanGotit~  Format: epub / pdf Product details Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: OUP Oxford (25 Jun. 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0199689016 ISBN-13: 978-0199689019 Hardcover £16.59 Kindle Edition £15.76 Contents List of Illustrations xi List of Plates xvii List of Tables xxi Introduction: Revelation: Meanings and Interpretations 1 1. The Angel of the Apocalypse: John’s Journey and his Angelic Guides 38 2. The Lamb 52 3. The Four Horsemen 70 4. The Seven Seals: Angelic Destruction 93 5. The Woman Clothed with the Sun 111 6. The Satanic Trinity 131 7. The Whore of Babylon 155 8. Armageddon, the Millennium, and the Last Judgement 176 9. The New Jerusalem 212 10. The Apocalypse in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Survey of Different Approaches to Revelation in the Arts and Popular Culture 235 Revelation: Artistic Reception and Relevance 284 Notes 295 Glossary 309 Suggestions for Further Reading 313 Bibliography 315 Index 323  The Van Eycks, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, Ghent: St Bavo’s Cathedral. © Bridgeman Art Library The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous angels of the Apocalypse have captured the popular imagination. One can hardly open a newspaper or click on a news site without reading about impending financial or climate-change Armageddon, while the concept of the Four Horsemen pervades popular music, gaming, and satire. Yet few people know much about either the basic meaning or original context of these concepts or the multiplicity of different ways in which they have been interpreted by visual artists in particular. The visual history of this most widely illustrated of all the biblical books deserves greater attention. This book fills these gaps in a striking and original way by means of ten concise thematic chapters which explain the origins of these concepts from the book of Revelation in an accessible way. These explanations are augmented and developed via a carefully selected sample of the ways in which the concepts have been treated by artists through the centuries. The 120 visual examples are drawn from a wide range of time periods and media including the ninth-century Trier Apocalypse, thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Apocalypse Manuscripts such as the Lambeth and Trinity Apocalypses, the fourteenth-century Angers Apocalypse Tapestry, fifteenth-century Apocalypse altarpieces by Van Eyck and Memling, Dürer and Cranach's sixteenth-century Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works by William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Max Beckmann, as well as film posters and film stills, cartoons, and children's book illustrations. The final chapter demonstrates the continuing resonance of all the themes in contemporary religious, political, and popular thinking, while throughout the book a contrast will be drawn between those readers of Revelation who have seen it in terms of earthly revolutions in the here and now, and those who have adopted a more spiritual, other-worldly approach.  William Blake, The Whore of Babylon, c.1809, London: British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum  Sharing Widget |