A Plate from the Cloisters Apocalypse
One of 72 miniatures illustrating the Book of Revelation in Gothic Normandy.
- Work
- Illustrated Apocalypse manuscript
- Artist / creator
- Unknown Norman illuminator
- Origin & date
- Normandy, France, c. 1330
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
The Cloisters Apocalypse illustrates the Book of Revelation with 72 half- and full-page miniatures across just 40 folios — an extraordinarily high ratio of image to text that makes it read almost like a graphic novel of the end of the world. Made in Normandy around 1330, likely for a member of the de Montigny family (whose partially erased coat of arms survives on a dedication leaf), it belongs to a distinct genre of illustrated apocalypse manuscripts that flourished in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England and France, translating John of Patmos's visions — beasts, trumpets, seals, the New Jerusalem — into a continuous visual sequence. The palette is cooler and more linear than contemporary French court illumination, closer to stained glass in its saturated blues and reds. It has been held by the Met's Cloisters museum, devoted to medieval European art, since 1968.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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Frame
Shown as a 8x10″ archival print, true to the piece's own proportions, on a real photographed wall.
