Art Depicting the Book of Revelation

Collected by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
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I've found a number of interesting depictions from the Book of Revelation from all artistic styles. You might want to use some of these to illustrate PowerPoint lessons on the Book of Revelation. This is part of a much larger study of Disciple Lessons from the Book of Revelation.

John on Patmos

• Hans Memling (1440-1494), The Revelation of St. John (c. 1480), Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, Bruges. St. John Altarpiece (right wing). Shows John on Patmos seeing vision.

• Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). St. John on Patmos (1504-5). Oil on oak panel, 63 x 43,3 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Illustrations on Revelation from the The Doré Bible Gallery. Again

• The New Jerusalem, 1897, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart

• "St. John at Patmos"  (Revelation 1:9)

• "The Vision of Death"  (Revelation 6:7-8)

• "The Crowned Virgin: A Vision of John"  (Revelation 12:1-3)

• "Babylon Fallen"  (Revelation 18:2)

• "The Last Judgment"  (Revelation 20:12)

• "The New Jerusalem"

• Armageddon

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Apocalypse of St. John. Connecticut Colleges Wetmore Print Collection.

• 7 Candlesticks

• The Sealing of the Hundred and Forty and Four Thousand, Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm, 1496-98.
• The Seven-Headed Beast and the Beast with Lamb's Horns, Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm, from 'The Apocalypse of St. John', 1496-98.
• The New Jerusalem and the Angel with the Key to the Pit, Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm, 1496-98.
• St. John Swallowing the little Book Presented by the Angel, Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm, 1496-98

William Blake (1757-1827). English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism.

• The Ancient of Days (1794) Relief etching with watercolor, 23.3 x 16.8 cm; British Museum, London.

• The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 'the Devil is come down', 1805-1810, watercolor, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.

• The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, Pen and watercolour, 435 x 345 mm,
  c.1805
• The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne, Pen and watercolour, 354 x 293 mm, c. 1803-5, London, Tate Gallery, National Gallery of British Art
• The Resurrection. Watercolour over pencil on paper, 8.07 x 8.27 inches / 20.5 x 21 cm,Private collection.

• The Angel of the Revelation, ca.1803–5,  brush and gray wash, pen and black ink over graphite on paper; 15 7/16 x 10 1/4 in. (39.2 x 26 cm). Feet on sea and land.

• Death on a Pale Horse

• Christian Beaten Down by Apollyon, from Bunyan

• The Number of the Beast is 666, Pen and watercolour, 412 x 335 mm, c. 1805, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library
• The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, Pen and watercolour, 401 x 356 mm, c. 1805. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art
• The Whore of Babylon, Pen and watercolour over pencil, 266 x 223 mm, 1809, London, British Museum
• The Vision of the Last Judgement (1808), Pen and watercolour, 510 x 395 mm, Petworth House, Sussex, National Trust
• The River of Life, Pen and watercolour, 305 x 336 mm, c. 1805, London, Tate Gallery, National Gallery of British Art

Peter von Cornelius (1793 - 1867), The Last Judgment (1836-40). Poster. A "Nazarene" painter.

Hieronymus Bosch

• The Last Judgment, Middle part of a triptychon, presumably created for Phillipe le beau. The left and right pieces show paradise and hell.
   

Fra Angelico

• Last Judgment, 1432-35, Tempera on wood, 105 x 210 cm (full painting), Museo di San Marco, Florence
• Hell (detail), 1432-35

Michelangelo

• The Last Judgment, Fresco on the western wall of the Sixtine Chapel, shows trumpets

John Martin

• The Angel with the Book, Lithograph, 270 x 375 mm, 1837,
  Collection of Michael J. Campbell.
• The Last Judgment (c. 1850-1853), Oil on canvas, London, Tate Gallery

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910)

• Light of the World (1851-53)  Rev 3:20

Lynn Morgan

• I Stand at the Door (Rev 3:20)

Jacobello Alberegno (Italian painter, Venetian school, d. 1397)

• Vision of Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos (1360-90), tempra on panel, 95 x 61 cm, Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice.

• The Harvest of the World (1360-90), Tempera on panel, 45 x 33 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (about 1525-69)

• The Harvesters, 1565, Oil on wood, 118.1 x 160.7 cm (46 1/2 x 63 1/4 in); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Not designed for Revelation, but illustrates the harvest of the earth (14:14-20)

Edward Coly Burne-Jones (1833- 1893)

• The Last Judgement, 1874 (coloured 1880), Wax crayon, Taken from 'Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer', Catalogue by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Last Judgment. 1896. West Window, St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, UK.

Roger Wagner

• The Harvest at the End of the World and the Reapers are Angels, 1984. Oil on canvas 25 x 32 inches.

Richard Harrison

• Satan Bound, Oil on canvas 213 x 183 cm (84 x 72 in)

Unknown

• King Jesus tramping out the grapes
• Winepress of God's Wrath. MS#644, fol.178, Morgan Beatus, 10th century, manuscript illumination, Piermont Morgan Library, New York City

Lamb with 7 horns

Two Witnesses

• Two Witnesses, San Andrés de Arroyo Monastery Codex, f. 105r
• Two Witnesses, Gerona Beatus, Gerona Cathedral

Collections:

Pat Marvenko Smith, developer of the video "Revelation Illustrated," is contemporary artist who has developed 35 prints illustrating Revelation.

John Steczynski, Professor, Boston College, APOCALYPSE: Meditations on the Visions of John, drawings.

Moments in Bible Prophecy, Revelation Study Guide. All 22 chapters are illustrated from various sources.

Bamberg Apocalypse, about 1020, Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek. Many medieval manuscript illustrations depicting scenes from Revelation.

Art of Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation Apocalypse

Professor Felix Just, S.J, Loyala Marymount University

• Links to collections of images on Revelation

• The Cloisters Apocalypse, An Early Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Manuscript

Lee Stoneking. Many images including

• Battle of Armageddon
• The White Throne Judgment

Worldwide Church of God (illustrations to articles)

• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

• John writing letters to 7 churches

Book of Revelation Verse by Verse Audio Study, David Griffin. Collection of grapics.

Bedford Studio, Revelation: the Magnificant Conclusion. Dale Bedford, contemporary artist.

• Fall of Babylon

• Welcome

BibleView Presentations Revelation I, Revelation II. Many simple single images and symbols from Revelation. Overview Presenations, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Christian Artwork by Duncan Long, includes pictures of Revelation, judgment, and "secret rapture".

• Last Trumpet

• Holy City coming down from heaven

Apolyptic Ideas in Old English Literature. Carolin Esser. Image gallery. Many fascinating images from different chapters.

The H'Art of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, 49 artworks by Devi  Anne Moore.

Book of Revelation by Ulrike. Contains diagram of tabernacle, plus 7 seals on scroll.

Medieval illuminated manuscripts of several Revelation scenes

Digital Art by Ted Larson. A series of Revelation images.

• Lake of Fire, very vivid!

• New Jerusalem

• City Foursquare

• Nearing the Pearl Gate

• Tree of Life, beautiful

4 Living Creatures around the Throne

• Egypt Griffin

• Babylon Griffin

• Mesopotamia 2 3 Griffin

• The Four Living Creatures around the Heavenly Throne, very old plates from Nancy Grubb's Revelations: Art of the Apocalypse (New York/London/Paris: Abbeville Publishers, 1997).

New Jerusalem

• Apocalypse Tapestries.  Nicholas Bataille, weaving; Hennequin de Bruges, painting.  It is 140 meters long. Chateau Angers. New Jerusalem image.

• The Yoru-Shalem Heavenly Temple Show, a series of paintings illustrating the Quest for the Heavenly Jerusalem and its promise of a better world. by Artist Hannah Omer and Cyber-Architect Yitzhak Hayut-Man.

Tree of Life

• Tree of Life by Suzanne Deveuve

 

 

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