A winged angel leans forward.
Bible in art · Revelation
An Angel Casting a Millstone into the Sea (Ms. Ludwig III 1, fol. 38, from the Getty Apocalypse)
Unknown English painter · about 1255–1260
Getty Center, Los Angeles
From the Getty Apocalypse, England, about 1255–1260. Each page of the book has a framed picture at the top and the Latin text of Revelation below, partly in red ink.
A mighty angel with great feathered wings leans forward on the rocks and throws a round stone into a green sea. John stands on the rocks opposite, writing in a book what he sees.
From the text
- A mighty angel picks up a stone the size of a great millstone and casts it into the sea (Revelation 18:21)
- “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down” (Revelation 18:21)
The artist’s own
- John writing what he sees
- The sea as a flat green pool
Details
The angel
The millstone
A round stone falls into the sea.
John
He writes in a book.
The sea
Green water between rocks.
Unknown illuminator, English (probably London). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. Ludwig III 1 (83.MC.72), fol. 38) · Tempera colors, gold leaf, colored washes, pen and ink · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)