Revelations


 Art of the Apocalypse

 
   
Gothic Art Map
 		    
   
Exploration: Revelations (Art of the Apocalypse)
 		  
    Introduction    
    Visions of the World to Come    
    Angels of the Apocalypse    
    The Four Horsemen and the Seven Seals    
    The Beasts, Antichrist, and the Women    
    Judgment Day    
    The Devil and the Damned    
    A New Heaven and a New Earth    
    APPENDIX
 		    
    Exploration: Gothic Era  (Gothic and Early Renaissance)
 		  

 

 


JUDGMENT DAY
 


 
And J saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works.

Revelation 20:12
 
 

Michelangelo
 (1475-1564)
The Last Judgment
1536-1541
Fresco
Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace
 
 

 

Joseph Heintz the Younger
(1600-1678)
The Last Judgment
 


 

Peter von Cornelius
 (1783-1867)
The Last Judgment
1836-1839
 


 

Frederic Leighton
 (1830-1896)
"And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were in It"
1892
Tate Gallery, London