Apocalypse 7

 Salvete Omnes,

War in Ukraine continues - many media outlets bring news of potential ceasefire talks between the Russian invaders-  Putin government and  Ukrainian defenders - Zelensky government et al.
We all hope and pray for the peace sooner than later, while the number of refugees - women and children from Ukraine - is currently close to 3 million people. Human catastrophe in making.

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another  Four Horsemen of Apocalypse image - deeply religious painter Victor Vasnetstov who many works  have been painted for the St Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kiev, the besieged capital of Ukraine.

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Apocalypse 6

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine (Wojna na Ukrainie) continues - peace must prevail!

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Apocalypse of the Chateau d'Angers - commissioned by Duke de Anjou circa 1375AD this monumental tapestry - originally 140 meters long and 850 square meters of total surface - is housed in the castle of Angers.  

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three out of Four Horsemen survived - 

1st

3rd

4th

and horsemen of the fire-breathing horses

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Apocalypse 5

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine must end - peace is so dear!!

more of the XV century Apocalypse images: 

this time:
De Vier Reiter - Cologne Bible circa 1479AD

and Apocalipsis in dietsche- circa 1400AD from Gallica - BN de France

our present day would require one more Horseman - the Disinformation Horseman, perhaps I will draw one this weekend... Medieval style?

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Apocalypse 4

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine continues 

Four Horsemen again - from 1420AD manuscript - Wellcome Apocalypsis (Apocalypse)

and according to Hurriyet here will be truce negotiations between Russian minister Lavrov and Ukrainian minister Kuleba in Antalya, Turkey on March 10th. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will be presiding, God willing they will get the war in Ukraine stopped

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Apocalypse 3

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine continues  

Two Apocalypse-related  XIX century works of art from then partitioned Poland (between Prussia, Austria-Hungarian Empire and Russian Empire)
Ignacy Gierdziejewski - Polish painter active in the mid XIX century (died 1860)- his 1855 painting held at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. (Academia article about the painters and artists in XIX century Warsaw)

 

 Peace in Ukraine 

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Apocalypse 2 - Durer

 Salvete Omnes,

so war, conquest, famine and death ride on in so many parts of the globe - foremost in Mexico, Ukraine, African and Asian continent

and now let us look at Durer's Four Horsemen - 

big, fat articles on Wikipedia

so just images - 

Peace must prevail in Ukraine

Salvete

Apocalypse 1

 Salvete Omnes,

we had pandemic*, now we have conquest* war* and death*,  and who knows what else our lords have for us up the sleeve - so let's look at some Apocalypse imagery - the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.

Four Horsemen

Conquest on a White Horse -1st Horseman

War on a Red/Roan Horse -2nd Horseman

Famine on Black Horse -3r Horseman

Death on a Pale Horse - 4th Horseman

Apocalypse, Thuringia ca. 1350-1370 AD,  BL, Add 15243, fol. 12r

That German Apocalypse is a bit different - second linked description from British Library talks about it.
Peace in Ukraine!

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Beatus de Saint-Sever - XI century French horses and milites

Salvete Omnes,
a short entry on a Medieval manuscript from Gascony,  one of the treasures at the French National Library aka Gallica [on line].


 The illuminations shows a couched lance technique, presumably very early in the medieval representation of such mounted lance technique, at least several decades prior to the famous Bayeux Tapestry of the Normans.
Beatus de Saint-Sever  or Apocalypse of Saint-Sever (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878) contains some beautiful and interesting iconography regarding horses and riders, horse tack and riders' arms and armor. We see saddles with high pommel and cantle (painted), bridles with a curb-bit, horses seem to have been shod. Riders are mounted on stallions or so it seems. The knights are suing spurs and saddles have also the breastplate and crupper. All this circa 1050AD.
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse

 

 


 armored riders mounted on monsters
 
 milites or XI century warriors. It was that armored, lance-wielding  mounted warrior  whom    the Catholic Church 'transformed into a knight thus creating the chivalry , and at the very end of the XI century these miles christi would go on crusading in the Holy Land.  

animals

monsters

 
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