Label Text:
This lithograph shows the pale horse from Revelation: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (Rev. 6:8, KJV). The eclipse in the background symbolizes death and the looming disaster of war. In Goncharova’s vision, this image embodies the theme of human sacrifice and death as indispensable companions to all war and strife.
BJ, 2014

Tags:
angels; animals; deaths; tools; wars; Christianity; religion; eclipses; farm equipment; scythes; skeletons; bones; horses

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