This gallery features a wide range of historical art, mostly from the old masters, but some popular pieces are also included. Since many other cultures foresaw an ending of time along with Christian Europe, pieces from other countries have also been included.
El hombre de pecado
“The Man of Sin” by Fray Geronimo el Sarabito
The Last Judgment
By Pieter Huys, student of Bosch
Get ’em, Mikey!
Rubens — Fall of the Rebel Angels
This way out
Man peering past the physical universe to the realm beyond
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
by Francesco Hayez
Nice day for an Apocalypse
Poussin, St. John in a Landscape on Patmos
Angel sounds the third trumpet
Medieval illumination, source unidentified
Here comes trouble
The Whore of Babylon from the Luther Bible, 1534
Lent begins
old postcard, colored
The Angel Proclaiming the End of Time
James Justus Tucker, d. 1842
The Fourth Horseman
Death on the Pale Horse, B. West, 1817
Heavenly apparitions
Sky battle over Nuremberg, 1561
The Number of the Beast
by William Blake
Fallen Angels Enter Pandemonium
John Martin, based on Paradise Lost, 1941
The Beast Cast into the Pit
William Blake, 1800
The World before the Flood
Painting by William Etty, d. 1749
The Third Trumpet
Russian Apocalypse, early 20th century
Frogs vomited
Symbol of lies of False Prophet, Dragon, and Beast, Spanish Apocalypse
And so it begins
von Steinle’s Four Horsemen
More images in all categories will be added frequently.
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