Art: Gothic, with a Difference

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day,

and heard behind me a great voice, as of

a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega,

the first and the last: and what thou

seest, write in a book and send it unto the

seven churches which are in Asia. . . .

When the great voice trumpeted behind him, how must the Saint, on the verge of the Apocalypse, have looked? That was the question Sculptor John Angel has spent eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for...

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