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In 1760, Cabrera created The Virgin of the Apocalypse, which describes the chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation. [12] He is also known for his posthumous portrait of the seventeenth-century poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Cabrera is currently most famous for his casta paintings.
Beatus of the Escorial, eschatological harvests and grape gathering, Apocalypse XIV, circa 950. The Spanish illumination of the Early Middle Ages is the art of decorating books that developed in Spain from the 8th to the 11th. The country was marked by the Muslim occupation from 711, which tended to isolate it from the rest of Europe.
Beatus is famous for his support of Asturian opposition to the doctrine of Adoptionism, proclaimed by the bishop of Toledo and declared by Asturias as heresy, [12] and it has been suggested that the manuscript reflects his orthodox stance against the doctrine. To the Asturians, Adoptionism was a form of compromise with the Islamic invaders and ...
The Angel Measuring the New Jerusalem. The Morgan Beatus contains preliminary material with brilliantly painted Evangelist portraits (ff. 1–9), Beatus's Commentary on the Apocalypse, (ff. 10-233), excerpts from Isidore of Seville's De ad finitatibus et gradibus and of his Etymologies (ff. 234r-237r), St. Jerome's Commentary on Daniel, (ff. 239–293), and a third exposition of the Apocalypse ...
The codex features the Commentary on the Apocalypse by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, of which 26 illustrated copies are known to exist, paired with Jerome's commentary on the Book of Daniel. [1] The Gerona Beatus was probably created at the monastery of Tabara in northwest Spain, [5] [1] being completed on July 6, 975.
Folio 12 recto of the Escorial Beatus, the great winepress of God. The Escorial Beatus (Escorial, Biblioteca Monasterio, Cod.& II. 5) is a 10th-century illuminated manuscript of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana.
The Spanish royal collection was accumulated by Spanish monarchs beginning with Isabel the Catholic, Queen of Castile (1451–1504), who accumulated large and impressive collections of objets d'art, 370 tapestries, and 350 paintings, a number by important artists including Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Juan de Flandes ...
Pages in category "Paintings based on the Book of Revelation" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...