A Wikipedia article on John the Apostle, recording the tradition that Roman authorities banished him to the Greek island of Patmos during a persecution under the emperor Domitian, and that he wrote the Book of Revelation there. The article also documents his standard attributes in Christian art, among them the eagle, taken to symbolize the high, soaring vision of his Gospel, the same visionary identity this Patmos scene draws on directly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the Patmos exile tradition and the eagle attribute, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual panel painted under that tradition. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Apostle
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Patmos directly: "banished him to the Greek island of Patmos during a persecution under the emperor Domitian, and that he wrote the Book of Revelation there."
Source John the Apostle (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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