List of Illustrations

Figure 1. Hieronymus Bosch
The Last Judgement, triptych fragment (1506-1508)
Oil on panel
Munich: Altepinakothek

Figure 2. William Blake
Death on a Pale Horse (c. 1800)
Drawing
Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum
© Fitzwilliam Museum

Figure 3. René Magritte
L’invention collective (Collective Invention) (1935)
Oil on canvas
Private collection
© Photothèque R. Magritte – ADAGP, Paris 2011

Figure 4. William Blake
Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795)
London: Tate
Colour monotype print with additions in ink and watercolour

Figure 5. René Magritte
Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature) (1953)
Oil on canvas
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary art
© Photothèque R. Magritte – ADAGP, Paris 2011

Figure 6. Peter Paul Rubens
Adam and Eve in Paradise (1599)
Oil on panel
Antwerp: Rubenshuis

Figure 7. John Guillermin
King Kong (1976).
Paramount Film Studios © mptvimages.com

Figure 8. John Guillermin
King Kong (1976).
Paramount Film Studios

Figure 9. John Martin
The Last Man (1849)
Oil on canvas
The Board of Trustees of National Museums and Galleries
on Merseyside, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery

Figure 10. Gustave Doré
Adam and Eve Driven Out of Eden (1865)
Engraving
Public domain

Figure 11. Albrecht Dürer
The Four of Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1511)
Woodcut
The William M. Ladd Collection
Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Figure 12. Reuven Dafni
Corpses in a Mass Grave (29 April 1945)
Germany: Bergen Belsen
© Yad Vashem, Archival Signature: 2545

Figure 13. Marc Chagall,
Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio (1945)
London: The Ben Uri Jewish Museum of Art

Figure 14. Anselm Kiefer (German, b. 1945)
Lot’s Wife (1989)
Oil paint, ash, stucco, chalk, linseed oil, polymer emulsion, salt and applied elements (e.g., copper heating coil), on canvas, attached to lead foil, on plywood panels; 350 x 410 cm
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1990.8.a

Figure 15. Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
Oil on canvas
Hamburg: Kunsthalle

Figure 16. Peter Paul Rubens
The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse (c. 1623-24)
Oil on panel
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Figure 17. Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal (1957)
AB Svensk Filmindustri. Det sjunde inseglet/The Seventh Seal (c)1957
Stockholm: AB Svensk Filmindustri
Still photographer: Louis Huch

Figure 18. Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal (1957)
AB Svensk Filmindustri. Det sjunde inseglet/The Seventh Seal (c)1957
Stockholm: AB Svensk Filmindustri
Still photographer: Louis Huch

Figure 19. René Magritte
La condition humaine (The human condition) (1933)
Oil on canvas
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Washington: National Gallery of Art
© Photothèque R. Magritte – ADAGP, Paris 2011

Figure 20. Thomas More
A Map of Utopia (1516)
Woodcut
Cambridge: St. John’s College

Figure 21. Michelangelo Buonarroti
Christ as Judge of the World (1475-1564)
Rome: Sistine Chapel, Vatican

Figure 22. El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) (1541-1614)
The Opening of the Fifth Seal (or The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse or The Vision of Saint John) (1608-14)
Oil on canvas (top truncated)
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1956
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure 23. John Martin
The Great Day of His Wrath (1851-53)
London: Tate
Oil on canvas

Figure 24. Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Flood, right-hand panel (1475-1564)
Rome: Sistine Chapel, Vatican