"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

#Spooktober 10: The Woman Clothed with the Sun

Who says the Bible isn’t spooky? In the Book of Revelations we meet a Woman who’s running from a Dragon. Yes. The Bible has dragons.

Today on my Patreon we take a look at one of the most stunning illustrations from the so-called Douce Apocalypse, a special favourite of both William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones when they were students at Oxford. It was made in England during the XIII Century and, according to Morris, it was “Gothic design at its best”.

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