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Camille Flammarion, extract from La Fin du monde (The End of the World)
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Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
Inscription on the Gate to Hell, Canto III
Contents
A
, Illustration for Dantes Divine Comedy
, Titian
, Albrecht Drer
, Hieronymus Bosch
, William Blake
, Giovanni Boldini
, William Blake
, Magius
, Cimabue
, Joseph Mallord William Turner
Albrecht Drer
, Ludwig Meidner
Grard David
, Hieronymus Bosch
B/C
, Anthony Van Dyck
, Andrea di Cione Orcagna
, Fra Angelico
, Asensio Juli
D
, Luca Signorelli
, Eugne Delacroix
, Benjamin West
, William Blake
, Gustave Dor
, Leonardo da Vinci
, William Miller
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
E
, Francisco Goya
, William Blake
William Blake
F
, Luca Giordano
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
, Hieronymus Bosch
, Jackson Pollock
, Jan Brueghel the Elder
, Stephanus Garsia Placidus (attributed to)
, Albrecht Drer
G
Hieronymus Bosch
, Auguste Rodin
, John Martin
H
Hieronymus Bosch
, Salvador Dal
I
, William Blake
, Coppo di Marcovaldo (attributed to)
, Illustration for Dantes Divine Comedy
, Illustration for Dantes Divine Comedy
J
, Jan Brueghel the Elder
K
, Albretch Drer
L
, 15 th century m issal
, Michelangelo
, Alaert Du Hamel
of Bourges
, Michelangelo
, Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico
, Fra Angelico
, Fra Angelico
Giotto di Bondone
, Giotto di Bondone
Gislebertus
, Gustave Dor
Hans Memling
Hans Memling
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch
Jan Van Eyck
Michelangelo
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
, Rogier van der Weyden
, Stephan Lochner
, Luca Signorelli
, Fra Angelico
Last Judgement, , Dieric Bouts the Elder
M/N/O
, Albrecht Drer
, Guido Reni
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Nicolas de Bataille and Jean Bondol (design)
P/R
, William Blake
, Luca Signorelli
, Illustration for Dantes Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli
, Illustration for Dantes Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli
Lucas Cranach the Elder
S
, Raphael
, Francisco Goya
, William Blake
, Albrecht Drer
, Raphael
T
, Hieromymus Bosch
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder or Joos de Momper the Younger
Hieronymus Bosch
, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
U/V/W
, Frida Kahlo
, Salvador Dal
, Gustave Dor
, Gustave Dor
, Albrecht Drer
, Marcantonio Raimondi, Agostino Veneziano
Selected Dates of Apocalyptic Predictions
c. 34 CE The first Christian church awaits the return of Jesus Christ, basing their expectation on Jesus own words: Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
31 December 999 At the end of the first millennium a wave of panic and apocalyptic gloom swept through the Christian West. Pope Sylvester II supposedly celebrated a fearful mass on the eve of the New Year, fully expecting the world to end.
1000 Taking the year 0 as the beginning of Gods millennial kingdom, apocalypticists expected the year 1000 to bring the return of Satan and his last rebellion. Again, Europe was swept by mass hysteria and panic.
1033 Monk and chronicler Rodulfus Glaber of Burgundy modified the calculations of previous apocalypticists, using the year of Jesus death as the beginning of Gods kingdom on earth and wrote about the coming end-times. His expectation was strongly fuelled by his observations of society: a drought plagued Europe and the result was something that many saw as a decline of civilisation. This era saw many reports about cannibalism, heretical activities, and satanic worship.
1186 In 1184, a strange letter made its rounds through intellectual circles, announcing that the world would be severely depopulated two years later due to natural catastrophes caused by a specific constellation of planets. Variants of the so-called Toledo Letter were still circulated, even centuries later.
1666 The obvious numerical connection of this date to the number of the beast leads many believers once more to assume that the apocalypse would finally begin. In the front row of these believers was Christopher Columbus, who thought that his last voyage would carry him to paradise. A severe drought in England and the Great Fire of London added to the apocalyptic mood of 1666.
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