Wixom, William D: Picturing the Apocalypse: Illustrated Leaves from a Medieval Spanish Manuscript. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 2002, Volume LIX, No. 3

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Wixom, William D : Picturing the Apocalypse: Illustrated Leaves from a Medieval Spanish Manuscript. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 2002, Volume LIX, No. 3

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

Wraps, 4to, 56 pages; Notes; References; color and black-and-white photos. Language: English. This issue devoted to the Cardena Beatus manuscript leaves, 'present[ing] the entire sequence of illuminations in all of their visual splendor and expressive power'.--p3. Includes conservator's inquiry into techniques and materials used. The first post-9/11 Bulletin; the September 11 attacks are mentioned in the Director's Note by Philippe de Montebello. Keywords: art history, Cloisters, illuminated, commentary, commentaries, medieval, painting, apocalyptic, millennium, end of the world, Book of Revelation, Christianity, Christian, religion, religious, Bible, New Testament, parchment, ink, dye, leaf, miniature, master, saint, angel.

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