This gallery features a wide range of historical art, mostly from the old masters, but some popular pieces are also included. Since many other cultures foresaw an ending of time along with Christian Europe, pieces from other countries have also been included.
The Number of the Beast
by William Blake
This way out
Man peering past the physical universe to the realm beyond
The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea
William Blake, pen and ink, 1805
The Whore of Babylon
Colored Reformation print from Burgkmair, undated
The Angel Proclaiming the End of Time
James Justus Tucker, d. 1842
The Resurrection of the Dead
Luca Signorielli, mural, Orvieto
Ezekiel’s Vision
Painting by Raphael
And so it begins
von Steinle’s Four Horsemen
The Fall of Babylon
John Martin, mezzotint, 1831
Here comes trouble
The Whore of Babylon from the Luther Bible, 1534
Seven Angels with Trumpets
By Gerung, no date given
The Destruction of Tyre
Painting by John Martin
The Harrowing of Hell
School of Bosch
The 7 seals as visualized by the mystic Rudolf Steiner
The Beast Cast into the Pit
William Blake, 1800
The Last Angel
Artist unidentified, 1912
The Last Judgment
By Pieter Huys, student of Bosch
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
by Francesco Hayez
Destruction of the Temple
Painting by Coleman, details unknown
The Resurrection of Christ
Grunewald, 1515
The Great Day of His Wrath
John Martin, painted 1851-1853
The First Horseman
Bamberg Apocalypse, c. 1010
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Last Judgment
After Hieronymus Bosch
The First Horseman
Bamberg Apocalypse, British Museum
John Martin, The Seventh Plague of Egypt
Painting, 1823
Jerusalem Falls
David Roberts, Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
The Star Wormwood
Woodcut, Zwingli Bible, Zurich, 1531
Belshazzar’s Feast
John Martin painting of the Fall of Babylon
Death and the Great Famine
Erfurt Apocalypse
Get ’em, Mikey!
Rubens — Fall of the Rebel Angels
Armageddon
Painting by Nicolas Roerich
The World before the Flood
Painting by William Etty, d. 1749
Angel sounds the third trumpet
Medieval illumination, source unidentified
Death on a Pale Horse
Engraving, William Blake
Sixth Trumpet Sounds
Painting signed “Howard”, 1804
Angel blows the second trumpet
Cloisters Apocalypse, medieval
Jean-Louis Lagrenee, St. John on Patmos
Painting, Lyon, 1758
Abaddon, Prince of Hell
Hell personified in unidentified medieval illumination
El hombre de pecado
“The Man of Sin” by Fray Geronimo el Sarabito
The Last Judgment
John Martin, died 1741
St. Michael vs. the Dragon
By weirdload
Frogs vomited
Symbol of lies of False Prophet, Dragon, and Beast, Spanish Apocalypse
The Vision of Zacharias at the Temple
Newly authenticated Rembrandt painting, 1633
Heavenly apparitions
Sky battle over Nuremberg, 1561
Ragnarök
Painting of the fall of Asgard by Carl Emil Doepler
Lent begins
old postcard, colored
The Third Trumpet
Russian Apocalypse, early 20th century
Nice day for an Apocalypse
Poussin, St. John in a Landscape on Patmos
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
John Martin, 1821
The War
Arnold Böcklin, 1896
Truth Rising from the Well
Jean lon Gerome, 1896
The Fourth Horseman
Death on the Pale Horse, B. West, 1817
The Eve of the Deluge
John Martin, painting, 1840
Satan presiding over Council of Hell
Engraving by John Martin, 1824
The Opening of the Sixth Seal
Francis Danby, c. 1826
Fallen Angels Enter Pandemonium
John Martin, based on Paradise Lost, 1941
New Planet
Konstantin Youn, 1921
The Last Judgment
Michelangelo Buonaroti, Sistine Chapel, 15t41
Prophecy of the Popes
Illuminated MS, British Museum
The Descent into Hell
School of Hieronymus Bosch
The Whore of Babylon
Luther Bible, 1534
The Four Horsemen
Painting by Vasnetsov
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