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Death on the Pale Horse, Benjamin West, 1817. According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war.
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961, [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/- = 75p) [1] and the US edition at $3.75. [3]
Death on the Pale Horse is the title of three different versions of a work by Benjamin West. The first of these is a large drawing from 1783, which has been in the collection of the Royal Academy of Art in London since 1784.
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Pale horse (Bible), in the Book of Revelation, a horse ridden by Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; The Pale Horse, a 1961 novel by Agatha Christie; The Pale Horseman, a 2005 novel by Bernard Cornwell; On a Pale Horse, a 1983 novel by Piers Anthony; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a 1939 collection of three short novels by Katherine ...
The punk rock band The Dead Milkmen entitled their 1997 greatest hits album "Death Rides a Pale Cow". This is a combination of the band's symbol (a hand-drawn smiling cow with "x-ed" out eyes) and Death riding upon a pale horse. Australian Metalcore band Parkway Drive's song "Leviathan I" contains the lyrics "Show me War. Show me Pestilence."
Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8. [36] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
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