Albrecht Dürer1498
Saint John Devouring the Book
At the angel's command John takes the little scroll and eats it, finding it sweet as honey in his mouth but bitter in his stomach (Revelation 10). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Apocalypse series (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.