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The original ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome at Pope Sixtus IV's time was a starry "vault of Heaven," done in gold and lapis lazuli. This is attributed to Pier Matteo d'Amelia. In 1506 Pope Julius II appointed Michelangelo to repaint the ceiling with scenes from the Book of Genesis [38] St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey, [39] in Bavaria ...
The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. AD 1300, the map is drawn in a form deriving from the T and O pattern.
This is the moment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls to send them to either Heaven or Hell. [1] "Doom painting" typically refers to large-scale depictions of the Last Judgement on the western wall of churches, visible to congregants as they left, rather than to representations in other locations or media.
[13] [11] The medieval tale holds that Christ spent the time between his crucifixion and resurrection down in Hell, setting the Devil's captives free with the irresistible power of his divine light. The motif, Steed suggests, involves multiple elements: 1) someone imprisoned in darkness 2) a powerful and evil jailor 3) a still more powerful ...
This lavish inclusion is from the biblical book of Genesis from the quote "The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild animals." [ 5 ] Most, if not all medieval bestiaries contain the story of the Christian Creation Myth , and many extant examples of medieval bestiaries are incomplete, which is one reason why ...
Pages in category "Paintings based on the Book of Revelation" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[3] Nuremberg, Saint Lawrence parish church: Western portal, 1340s. Medieval theatre often had a hellmouth prop or mechanical device which was used to attempt to scare the audience by vividly dramatizing an entrance to Hell. These seem often to have featured a battlemented castle entrance, in painting usually associated with Heaven. [4]
The Apocalypse Tapestry is a large medieval set of tapestries commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382.It depicts the story of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation by Saint John the Divine in colourful images, spread over six tapestries that originally totalled 90 scenes, and were about six metres high, and 140 metres long in total.