Angels Reaping and Treading the Wine Press
Date16th Century
MediumWoodcut
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas Brown in memory of her husband
Object number1956.39.9
DescriptionA scene from the Apocalypse, the revelation of St. John on the Island of Patmos; this scene is from revelations 14:14-20; figure of God sitting left within a circle of light in the clouds; he is crowned and holding a sickle; to the left is an angel who is kneeling and who seems, by the gesture of his hands, to be praying to God; below the figure of God is a smaller angel who is watching the activity below; below the figures of God and the angelss are several other angels on earth squashing grapes and cutting wheat; below the woodcut is part of the Latin textOn View
Not on viewCollections
Egypt
Francisco Goya
not after 1918