Albrecht Dürer1498
The Angel with the Key of the Bottomless Pit
An angel descends from heaven holding the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain, ready to seize the dragon and bind him for a thousand years (Revelation 20). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer (1498).
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer was a Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist whose four great biblical woodcut cycles — the Apocalypse (1498), the Large Passion (1497–1511), the Life of the Virgin (1503–1511), and the Small Passion (1509–1511) — defined Northern Renaissance religious imagery and shaped Reformation-era visual theology across Europe.