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Saint Michael is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raphael. Also called the Little Saint Michael to distinguish it from a larger, later treatment of the same theme, Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan, it is now in the Louvre in Paris. [1] The work depicts the Archangel Michael in combat
Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. It shows the archangel Michael standing on top of Satan's back with his right foot. The painting was commissioned by Pope Leo X and has been located in the Louvre in Paris since 1667. This painting has symbolic meaning within the Christian religion as ...
A similar painting, this time with the Archangel Michael himself slaying a serpent then became a major art piece at the Michaelion and eventually lead to the standard iconography of Archangel Michael as a warrior saint. [3]
Saint Anthony Abbot and Michael the Archangel; Saint John the Evangelist and Michael the Archangel; Saint Michael (Beccafumi, 1526-1535) Saint Michael (Giordano) Saint Michael (Raphael) Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (Beccafumi) San Ruffillo Madonna; Santa Margherita Madonna; Saint Peter Martyr Altarpiece
Archangel Michael fights the devil and the Virgin of the Assumption of the Angels is an oil painting on canvas (243x166 cm) of Dosso Dossi and Battista Dossi, dated to about 1533 to 1534 and preserved at the Galleria nazionale di Parma.
The central panel shows Jesus sitting in judgment on the world, while St Michael the Archangel weighs souls: he sends the damned towards Hell (the sinner in St. Michael's right-hand scale pan is a donor portrait of Tommaso Portinari); the left hand panel shows the saved being guided into heaven by St Peter and the angels.
Prior to 1878, the Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel could be worn as part of a Roman Catholic Archconfraternity. Presently, enrollment is authorized as this holy scapular remains as one of the 18 approved by the Church. Apart from his being a patron of warriors, the sick and the suffering also consider Archangel Michael their patron saint ...
The sentence Quis ut Deus? is particularly associated with Archangel Michael. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In art, St. Michael is often represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield, as he overcomes Satan , sometimes represented as a dragon and sometimes as a man-like figure.