# Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Spanish]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript \(1991.232\), 448 x 298 mm ## Commentary Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse c. 1180 Manuscript \(1991.232\), 448 x 298 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The picture shows a leaf from a copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. It was produced in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, Burgos. Below the representation of Christ in Majesty, the angel of God orders St John to write the Apocalypse \(the Book of revelation\). ## Related artworks - [Alba Bible]() - [Alfonso the Wise: Cantigas de Santa Maria]() - [Alfonso the Wise: Cantigas de Santa Maria]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Astrological Treatise]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Revelation of St. John]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()