Title: Hart 230' Medieval Art and Literature
1Hart 230. Medieval Art and Literature Anglo-Fren
ch Pictorial Cycles of the Revelation of St.
John The Douce Apocalypse Manuscript and the
Angers Apocalypse Tapestries
2Reconstruction of Old Saint Peters, façade, 4th
century
Apse mosaic, Santa Pudenziana, Rome c. 380
3Duke Ratchis Altar Lombard, c. 740
Gundihinus Gospels, c. 754 Merovingian
Sarcophagi, Jouarre, Merovingian, c. 8th century
4Apse mosaic, Palatine Chapel at Aachen built by
Charlemagne, c. 800
5Codex Amiatinus, Northumbrian, c. 716
Codex Aureus of St. Emmeran, c. 870
6Trier Apocalypse, c. 800
7The Morgan Beatus, Spain, 10th century Sealing
the Elect
8913-19 The Sixth Trumpet releases four angels of
death. The Apocalypse of St. Sever, Spain
961-8. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Apocalypse of St. Sever, Spain
10St. Pierre, Moissac, Christ and the Twenty-Four
Elders, tympanum, 12th century
11Ste. Foy, Conques, Last Judgment, 12th century
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13127-9 Michael and angels fight dragon
14The Judgment, Trinity Apocalypse, Trinity
College, Cambridge, c. 1242-50 Made for Queen
Eleanor The Last Judgment To Christs right
Peter, Dominic, Francis, a queen and Benedict
15Last Judgment, Chartres Cathedral, south
transept, c. 1220
16612-17. Opening Sixth Seal 71-8 Angels hold
back four winds
61-8. Opening fourth seal. 69-12. Vision o
martyrs
17Trinity Apocalypse
18The Douce 180 Apocalypse, Oxford Bodleian
Library, c. 1280 Probably made for Edward I,
son of Henry III and Eleanor of Province, husband
of Eleanor of Castille
19Johns letter to the seven churches of Asia
20John writing to the church at Smyrna
2156-14. The Lamb (with seven horns and seven
eyes), Apocalyptic Beasts and 24 Elders
2261-8. Opening the Fourth Seal, Death on a pale
horse followed by Hades
2371-8. Four Angels hold back the four winds
2481-12. Opening the Seventh Seal
2591-11. The Fifth Trumpet and the Plague of
Locusts
26Measuring the Temple
27121-6. A woman robed with the sun, beneath her
feet the moon and on her head a crown of twelve
stars
28127-9. Angels battle the dragon
29131-20. Beast with ten horns and seven heads
rose out of sea and men worshipped it. A second
beast brings fire down from heaven.
30The Lamb on Mount Zion
311414-20. Harvest of the World. The grapes of
wrath.
32Merchants and Kings lament over Babylon
331821-24. The angel with millstone. Thus shall
Babylon, the great city, be sent hurtling down,
never to be seen again.
34Marriage in Heaven
35Siege of the Holy City
36Judgment
37Judgment
38Angers Cathedral
39Angers Tapestry Commissioned by Duke Louis I of
Anjou c. 1373 Weaver Nicolas Bataille Painter
Jean Bondol
40Chateau at Angers
41Louis I, Duke of Anjou, private chapel at Angers
42Display of Tapestry today at Chateaux
43Jean Bondol, artist for Charles V From Bible
historiale, Jean Vaudetar presenting Bible to
King Charles V, c. 1380
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46John writes letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
47Christ with the Sword and Disciple
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50Opening the Fourth Seal. Death on a Pale Horse
followed by Hades
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52The Fifth Trumpet and The Plague of Locusts
53The Lamb on Mount Zion
54The Lamb on Mount Zion
55Harvest of the Chosen
Harvest of the Wicked
56Harvest of the Wicked
57Evil Spirits as Frogs
58Seventh Flask poured and the Destruction of
Babylon
59The Whore of Babylon
60Whore of Babylon on the Beast
61Babylon Invaded by Devils
62Christ Attacking Beast
63Beast cast into lake of fire and brimstone
64Discussion of Resurrection
65Satan laying siege to New Jerusalem
66The New Jerusalem
67The New Jerusalem
68Angel Measuring New Jerusalem