Empire and Apocalypse in Early Modern Europe: An Analysis of Selected Images from Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse Series
Empire and Apocalypse in Early Modern Europe:
An Analysis of Selected Images from Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse Series
Heather Madar’s “Dürer’s depictions of the Ottoman Turks: a case of early modern
Orientalism?”
• Influences on Dürer’s Apocalypse– Millenarianism – Existential need – Threat of Ottoman expansion
• Ottoman Empire replaces ancient Rome in critique
Albrecht Dürer, Sea Monster and the Beast with the Lamb’s Horns, 1498 Albrecht Dürer, Three Orientals, c.1494–95
Albrecht Dürer, The Whore of Babylon Seated upon a Beast with Seven Heads, 1498 Albrecht Dürer, An Oriental Ruler Enthroned, c.1495