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The Fourth Trumpet: The Darkening of a Third of the Celestial Bodies
Unknownabout 1255–1260
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
The blowing of the fourth trumpet heralds the extinguishing of a third of the stars, a third of the moon, and a third of the sun. The illuminator represented the scene so as to suggest that the air the angel blows through the trumpet causes the damage; quite literally, a third of the sun, moon, and stars is blackened.
Details
- Title: The Fourth Trumpet: The Darkening of a Third of the Celestial Bodies
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: about 1255–1260
- Location Created: London (probably), England
- Physical Dimensions: Leaf: 31.9 × 22.5 cm (12 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Type: Folio
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, colored washes, pen and ink on parchment
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 83.MC.72.12v
- Culture: English
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig III 1, fol. 12v
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Manuscripts (Documents)
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