# English Apocalypse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript, 272 x 195 mm \(folio size\) ## Commentary English Apocalypse c. 1250 Manuscript, 272 x 195 mm \(folio size\) The Morgan Library and Museum, New York The illumination, an illustration to the Book of Revelation, depicts the angel showing St John the Heavenly Jerusalem. The angel urges him to "Look and see!" What draws John's visionary gaze heavenward are the undulating arcs of drapery and the criss-crossed arms of the angel. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()