The Revelation of St John: 6. Four Angels Staying the Winds and Signing the Chosen
1497-98
Woodcut, 39 x 28 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Four angels held back the four winds (symbols of the great empires of antiquity) until another angel had placed the protective `seal of the living God' on the foreheads of the multitudes of Christians (Rev. 7:1-3).