# The Revelation of St John: 12. The Sea Monster and the Beast with the Lamb's Horn [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DÜRER, Albrecht]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm ## Commentary The Revelation of St John: 12. The Sea Monster and the Beast with the Lamb's Horn 1497-98 Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe A beast with ten horns and seven heads rose out of the sea and men worshipped it \(Rev: 13:1-13\). On each horn was a diadem. One head had a mortal wound that had healed. \(The beast stands for Nero, as the well-known riddle of its number, 666, tends to confirm; its seven heads are probably a line of Roman emperors, the horns other rulers. One of its heads is seen to fall back as if dead. People kneel before it worshipping.\) In the upper part: the vision of the harvest of the world, the \`grapes of wrath' \(14: 14-20\). Christ enthroned on a cloud, holding a sickle, sent out his angels with sickles. They gathered the grapes \`and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath'. \(The jjudgment of the chosen and the damned, the wicked going to their doom.\) \(Rev: 13:1-13, 14:14-17\) ## Related artworks - [A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer's Wife]() - [Abduction of a Woman]() - [Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()