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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:49:13 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Subject: The book is also availabe in the Internet!!!!
To: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
The Four Living Creatures around the Heavenly Throne
The first two plates depict the throne vision of Rev 4 - 5, with the "four
living creatures" surrounding God and/or the Lamb.
The second two plates show the symbols of the four Evangelists around Jesus
enthroned in Judgment (cf. Rev 19:4).
Click on any image for a larger version.
#1
#2
#3
#4
Prints from Nancy Grubb's Revelations: Art of the Apocalypse (New
York/London/Paris: Abbeville Publishers, 1997).
[reproduced with permission]
#1 - Beatus of Liébana (d. 798), Commentary on the Apocalypse (Morgan Beatus),
Spanish, ca. 950 [Pierpont Morgan Library, New York]
#2 - Jacobello Alberegno (d. 1397), Vision of Saint John the Evangelist on
Patmos [Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice] - another copy here
#3 - Jacquemart de Hesdin (d. 1409), Psalms of Penitence: Christ in Majesty,
from Les Très Belles Heures du Duc de Berry, early 15th cent. French Manuscript
[Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels]
#4 - Christ in Majesty with Symbols of the Evangelists, from Westminster
Psalter, 12th cent. English Manuscript [The British Library, London]
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