MINIATURIST, Spanish
(active around 1180)

Locusts Come upon the Earth

c. 1180
Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, 445 x 300 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The picture shows a leaf from a copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. It was produced in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, Burgos.