Albrecht Dürer1498

Saint John Devouring the Book

Saint John Devouring the Book by Albrecht Dürer depicting Revelation 10:8
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Depicted passages

Revelation 10:8-11Primary
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer

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.

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