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.
Angel blows the second trumpet
Cloisters Apocalypse, medieval
Angel sounds the third trumpet
Medieval illumination, source unidentified
The Angel Proclaiming the End of Time
James Justus Tucker, d. 1842
The Fourth Horseman
Death on the Pale Horse, B. West, 1817
This way out
Man peering past the physical universe to the realm beyond
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
by Francesco Hayez
El hombre de pecado
“The Man of Sin” by Fray Geronimo el Sarabito
Heavenly apparitions
Sky battle over Nuremberg, 1561
The World before the Flood
Painting by William Etty, d. 1749
Here comes trouble
The Whore of Babylon from the Luther Bible, 1534
Lent begins
old postcard, colored
Frogs vomited
Symbol of lies of False Prophet, Dragon, and Beast, Spanish Apocalypse
The Resurrection of the Dead
Luca Signorielli, mural, Orvieto
Fallen Angels Enter Pandemonium
John Martin, based on Paradise Lost, 1941
The Last Judgment
John Martin, died 1741
The Last Judgment
By Pieter Huys, student of Bosch
And so it begins
von Steinle’s Four Horsemen
Get ’em, Mikey!
Rubens — Fall of the Rebel Angels
The Number of the Beast
by William Blake
The First Horseman
Bamberg Apocalypse, British Museum
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