The Cloisters Apocalypse illustrates the Book of Revelation with 72 half- and full-page miniatures across just 40 folios — an extraordinarily high ratio of image to text that makes it read almost like a graphic novel of the end of the world. Made in Normandy around 1330, likely for a member of the de Montigny family (whose partially erased coat of arms survives on a dedication leaf), it belongs to a distinct genre of illustrated apocalypse manuscripts that flourished in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England and France, translating John of Patmos's visions — beasts, trumpets, seals, the New Jerusalem — into a continuous visual sequence. The palette is cooler and more linear than contemporary French court illumination, closer to stained glass in its saturated blues and reds. It has been held by the Met's Cloisters museum, devoted to medieval European art, since 1968.

Maker: Unknown Norman illuminator
Date: c. 1330
Medium of the original: Illuminated manuscript
Original held by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00922

As chosen: 10 x 8 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	10 x 8 in
Outside size	11.6 x 9.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	200	Excellent	Trimmed 3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
14 x 11 in	142 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
20 x 16 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
24 x 18 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
30 x 24 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
40 x 30 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,000 x 1,650 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 81, lights 203 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 12.2