The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse c.1497-98 by Albrech Durer (1471-1528).
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse c.1497-98 by Albrech Durer (1471-1528).
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse c.1497-98 by Albrech Durer (1471-1528).
As the Millennium approaches, the Fitzwilliam Museum is opening a new exhibition focusing on the Apocalyptic vision of a German artist five hundred years ago.
Apocalypse: Prints By Durer and Duvet opens at the Shiba Room of the Fitzwilliam Museum on 5 October. The centrepiece of the exhibition is an extraordinary set of woodcuts by Albrech Durer (1471-1528) illustrating the Revelations of St John the Divine, or The Apocalypse. It was published in 1498, when many thought the world would end as the century reached its conclusion. The exhibition compares the woodcuts with those of sixteenth-century Jean Duvet, a Burgundian goldsmith, designer and engraver.
The exhibition will run until March 2000.
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