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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.
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
He may be standing over a serpent, a dragon, or the defeated figure of Satan, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance. [2] 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 ...
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
In 1872, Plockhorst exhibited a painting which was soon regarded as his chief work, “The Battle of archangel Michael with Satan for the body of Moses” (today in the Städtisches Museum, Cologne). His next major work was the altar painting “The Resurrection of Christ” for the cathedral of Marienburg , painted by order of the Prussian ...
The lower part of the painting, characterized by the presence of the demons defeated by the archangel Michael, shows a clear rebellious imprint in the chiaroscuro features of the scene; while the upper part, characterized by the figure of the saint, shows evident influences of Venetian painting. The image of Saint Michael mirrors that of ...
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.
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.