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The Fall of the Damned, alternately known as The Fall of the Rebel Angels, [1] is a monumental religious painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated around 1620. It depicts a jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into the abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels.
Michael, [Notes 1] also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch [6] [dead link ] is an archangel in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the BaháΚΌí Faith.
The iconography of Michael slaying a serpent goes back to the early 4th century, when Emperor Constantine defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople in 324 AD, not far from the Michaelion, a church dedicated to Archangel Michael. [3]
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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
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.
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 figure is the archangel Michael depicted with a sword. He is in triumph as he defeats the fallen angels and demonic creatures. [2] Above the archangel, there are figures coming out of what looks like a hole in the sky which is the sun. [3] The figures represent Lucifer, the fallen angels, and demonic creatures.