# Douce Apocalypse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Douce 180\), 311 x 203 mm \(folio size\) ## Commentary Douce Apocalypse c. 1272 Manuscript \(Ms. Douce 180\), 311 x 203 mm \(folio size\) Bodleian Library, Oxford In the miniature on folio 18v, John is standing on the left and looking up the lamb, who is breaking the sixth seal. There is a black sun on the sky and a storm is raging. The powerful earthquake has uprooted trees, destroyed houses and buried the people beneath. ## 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]()