Abstract
The Book of Revelation by John, often referred to by its Greek name, Apocalypse, became an extremely popular source of inspiration for images in western European manuscripts. The earliest extant manuscript illustrating Book of Revelation is believed to be the early ninth-century Carolingian manuscript known as the Trier Apocalypse, itself thought to be copied from sixth-century Italian original, with seventy-four full-page illuminations. Constantinople was another important center for the production of Armenian Bible manuscripts in the seventeenth century, and the compositions in the Book of Revelation deviate somewhat from the de Bry model that so fascinated the New Julfa artists. By the seventeenth century, however, a number of artists of late manuscripts had drastically transformed their art to more literal depictions of text of Revelation, and considerably increased the number of illustrations in the text, due to increased exposure to western European art through the medium of printed, illustrated books. Keywords: apocalypse; Armenian bible manuscripts; Book of Revelation; western European art; western European manuscript
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