Question

A character from this book is shown in front of a nude figure pointing left and straddling a figure emerging from the sea in two entries of a series commissioned by Thomas Butts. A large triptych from the 1850s inspired by this book includes The Plains of Heaven and was the last major work by John Martin. The title figure holds a lightning (10[1])bolt amid raised swords in the last of three versions of a painting based on this book by Benjamin West. This book inspired William Blake’s painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. (10[1])A painting inspired by this book depicts an elongated man in blue raising his hands to the cloudy sky; that El Greco painting is The Opening of the Fifth Seal. For 10 points, what biblical book inspired Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Horsemen (10[1])of the Apocalypse? ■END■

ANSWER: Book of Revelation [prompt on Bible or New Testament; reject “Revelations” or “Book of Revelations”] (Benjamin West’s painting is Death on a Pale Horse.)
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Kevin ParkClaremont AUC Berkeley A6210
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BUCLA9910
Nolan DannelsUCSDClaremont B14110

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