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Bible
Not on view
In this image of the Apocalypse created in Bologna at the turn of the fourteenth century, Christ with the Lamb of God sits on a throne with the four rivers of paradise and the four beasts of the Apocalypse—the angel, lion, ox, and eagle. The twenty-four elders of the Apocalypse flank Christ. Greek painters, arriving in Italy after the Fourth Crusade’s taking of Constantinople in 1204, may have influenced the elegant style of this illumination.
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