ART GALLERY / Any part of the Revelation of John, that threatens Christians in their announcing the imminent return of Satan, a thousand years after Christ's incarnation. On the eve of the millennium has always been demonstrative of such apocalyptic warnings, and in the year 1000, a real terror had invaded a large part of the Christian population, convinced of the imminent end of the world. This return is being made in the year 1000, there could be some in 2000! This work replete with religious symbols and prophetic, was inspired by a manuscript of the Apocalypse Flemish illuminated only known, dating from 1400 to 1410. The original is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. This is one of twenty-three miniatures of this unparalleled masterpiece, with scenes from the life of St. John before his exile to the island of Patmos. Five stages are identified in this table: 1 ° preaches water. 2 Baptism. 3 ° The boat that took him to Rome. 4 The Emperor Domitian Latin at the door. 5 ° The ordeal of the cauldron of boiling oil, which requires a miracle, will not affect the Holy! When the "Twenty-four letters of the Alphabet of Death" that coexist in the Apocalypse, they are Hans Holbein the Younger, published in 1538 in Lyon. Hans Holbein was a friend of Erasmus and Thomas More, he was born in 1497 in Basel and died in London of the plague in 46 years in 1543, an prescient alphabet, since, at that time, the appearance of the plague was also considered the beginning of the Apocalypse. If there are only 24 letters, is that J & U did not exist, they were replaced by the letters I and V. This alphabet is also called dance of death. Every person on this canvas and which carries a letter die the day of the Apocalypse! The story begins at the bottom left with the skeletons bearing the letter A: This is the announcement of the beginning of the Apocalypse and ends in the lower right with only one person spared, carried the letter Z, announcing the final redemption symbolized by the pure water and the white rabbit, a sign of Christ. As for Satan, he hides under the green color, well identified four beings! Note that the windows of the cathedral are already tinted green, proving that no one is spared! Outside the enclosure religious left the bourgeoisie, right kingship, in the extreme right vile people angry. Then the river red with blood and dying bodies. Only foreigners in the Apocalypse, the couple in the middle of pristine foreground, this is your painter who immortalized this scene with a beautiful young woman from the city of Strasbourg, very incredulous? The painting is signed and monogrammed lower top (visible in the pocket of green winged monster!).
A LIMITED EDITION SERIES 100 ORIGINAL PRINTS on Arches paper 300 grams, is offered in 74 x 54 cm, each numbered and signed. Price: € 75- / USD 98- / RUB 3026- = Mailing France and abroad under roll included.

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