Christ of the Apocalypse: Central Pinnacle Panel

Giovanni da Milano was a Lombard painter who settled in Florence and became one of the most distinctive artists of the mid-Trecento, known for his refined color sense and emotional subtlety. This Christ of the Apocalypse, a central pinnacle panel dating to around 1365, crowned a major altarpiece now dismembered across the National Gallery, London. The apocalyptic Christ, derived from the Book of Revelation, served as the theological summit of the altarpiece's iconographic program.

Executed in egg tempera on a pointed panel with gold ground, the half-length Christ figure displays Giovanni's characteristic luminous flesh painting, delicate color harmonies, and the refined drawing that distinguished his Lombard sensibility from the harder Florentine manner.