Morgan Beatus

Morgan Beatus, around 945, Morgan Library & Museum, New York. A Spanish copy of Beatus of Liébana's commentary on the Apocalypse, painted by an artist who signed himself Maius, in colors as flat and bright as enamel. This is the New Jerusalem, folio 222v: the holy city laid out flat as a square, its wall opened by horseshoe arches. An apostle stands in each of the twelve arches, his name written beside him, beneath a disk inscribed with one of the city's precious stones, and in the checkered center the angel holds his measuring rod beside the Lamb and Saint John.