Doré illustrated stories from the Old and New Testaments. The four horsemen of the apocalypse are a very well-known motif that has been taken up again and again. Here Dore focuses primarily on the rider Death. This portrayal gained notoriety in the scene as the band Emperor used a section of it as the cover artwork for “Wrath of the Tyrant”. [...]

Doré illustrated stories from the Old and New Testaments. Sennacherib was once king of Assyria. His campaigns are described in the Old Testament. So he launched an attack on Judea and besieged Jerusalem. He let the trapped Jews announce that they should quietly pray to their God - he would just as little help them as [...]