The most famous artists in the world illustrating the last book of the Christian canon, which in the Catholic editions of the Bible goes under the name of the Apocalypse of Saint John, because of the enigmatic language and the phantasmagoria of images and symbols. More than one hundred works, including loans of codes, paintings on wood and canvas, sculptures, pieces in gold and silver, engravings and drawings, ordered according to the succession of chapters in this book from the Bible. Some of the art works include: Apocalypsis in figuris by Albrecht Dürer, Saint Peter in prison by Rembrandt van Rijn, Asunción de la Virgen by El Greco, Apocalypse, 22 black and white, hand-coloured lithographs by Giorgio de Chirico, L'Hostie by Salvador Dalì. There are also works by Beato Angelico, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, Lucas Cranach, Kandinsky, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Van Gogh, Zurbaran and many others, together with a very ancient and precious series of Russian and Greek icons. Of considerable interest is the icon having an apocalyptic vision which comes from the Sacred Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos: the place where the apostle, in exile, had a revelation from Christ regarding the fate of the world. Throughout the centuries the Apocalypse has been ingeniously and copiously represented by the greatest and most sophisticated minds in art, literature and music history, and for this reason it is a very special book. It is in fact the book of Christian hope. John, the prophet of Patmos, interprets the difficult situation where the persecuted believers find themselves turning to Christ. Christ, who won the world and destroyed evil by dying on the cross, guarantees eternal blessedness to the good, notwithstanding the outward and impermanent victory of negative forces tormenting history.
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