{"id":411,"date":"2013-12-18T09:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T09:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/?p=411"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:56:28","slug":"photographing-the-apocalypse-circa-1483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/12\/18\/photographing-the-apocalypse-circa-1483\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing The Apocalypse Circa 1483"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Digital Imaging Unit were asked to photograph all 8 illustrations from the book of the Apocalypse in Anton Koberger&#8217;s German Bible of 1483.\u00a0 Shelf-mark Inc.45.2.\u00a0 I have selected a few details from the illustrations here to demonstrate the quality of the line and its powerful descriptive impact. &#8221; Koberger was the godfather of <a title=\"Albrecht D\u00fcrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer\">Albrecht D\u00fcrer<\/a>, whose family lived on the same street. In the year before D\u00fcrer&#8217;s birth in 1471.&#8221; \u00a0 <span class=\"reference-text\">Giulia Bartrum, <i>Albrecht D\u00fcrer and his Legacy<\/i>, British Museum Press, 2002, pp 94-96, <a class=\"internal mw-magiclink-isbn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0714126330\">ISBN 0-7141-2633-0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Brown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055706d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-414\" alt=\"0055706d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055706d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055706d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055706d-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055708d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-415\" alt=\"0055708d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055708d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055708d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055708d-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055708d-722x1024.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055704e.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-412\" alt=\"0055704e\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055704e.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055704e.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055704e-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055705d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-413\" alt=\"0055705d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055705d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055705d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/12\/0055705d-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Digital Imaging Unit were asked to photograph all 8 illustrations from the book of the Apocalypse in Anton Koberger&#8217;s German Bible of 1483.\u00a0 Shelf-mark Inc.45.2.\u00a0 I have selected&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/12\/18\/photographing-the-apocalypse-circa-1483\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photographing The Apocalypse Circa 1483<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[67,81,71,65,79,84],"tags":[14,13,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}