Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Angels Restrain the Four Winds; the Angel Ascends from the Rising Sun, ca. 1180

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Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Angels Restrain the Four Winds; the Angel Ascends from the Rising Sun, ca. 1180, Spanish, Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Overall (folio): 17 1/2 x 11 13/16 in. ( x 30 cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Illustrated Beatus manuscripts bring to life an extraordinary vision of the end of the world, as recorded by Saint John in the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) and filtered through the lens of Beatus of Liébana, an eighth-century Asturian monk

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