MINIATURIST, Spanish
(active around 1180)

Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse

c. 1180
Manuscript (1991.232), 448 x 298 mm (folio size)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The picture shows a detail of a leaf from a copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. The miniature depicts the Seventh Angel of the Apocalypse Proclaiming the Reign of the Lord.

The manuscript was produced in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, Burgos.