The Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun. Bamberg Apocalypse, Reichenau ca. 1010.

[medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social]

The Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun. Bamberg Apocalypse, Reichenau ca. 1010. Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 29v.
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[original_peterm@mastodon.social]

@medieval_illuminations So this is the inspiration for William Blake’s work of the same name.
It was used as a front cover for the novel “Red Dragon” which preceded “The silence of the Lambs”.

[riggbeck@mastodon.social]

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"But I want to play with the dragon!"