print
- Museum number
- 1907,1029.25
- Title
- Series: Illustrations for the Lübeck Bible: The Apocalypse
- Description
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The destruction of Gog and Magog; evil forces dressed as Turks in the foreground have been let loose after the beast's one thousand years of imprisonment, fire issuing from the clouds above is devouring the troups, who have been attacking 'the beloved city' here interpreted as Vienna with St Stephen and St. Maria am Gestade. Clipping from the Lübeck Bible. c.1530-34
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1530-1534 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- From Part V, fol. 138r. Martin Luther had linked this episode with the flight of the Turks from Vienna in 1529. Altdorfer is following the interpretation of the Monogrammist AW. See Giulia Bartrum's entry in 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come', exh. cat. BM London, no.56.
See also Curatorial Comment for 1907, 1029.15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1907,1029.25
