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In Rome, Cabanel meditated at length on the theme of the fallen angel. He would paint The Evening Angel (1848), a year later in gouache. [citation needed] In this depiction, the angel is dressed in a large drape and faces away from the viewer. [4] Detail, depicting Lucifer in a state of rage, featuring a single tear-drop.
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Lucifer coerced one-third of the angels to follow his lead in the rebellion and to assist in appointing him to be the new "God." [5] The sin of pride caused the fall of Lucifer and his companions and resulted in the "war in heaven." The archangel Michael was given the duty to drive Lucifer and the fallen angels out of heaven. [5]
Lucifer is a painting completed in 1890 by the German artist Franz Stuck, one of the founders of the Munich Secession. The painting belongs to Stuck's "dark monumental" period, presenting an image of "man-demon". [1] The canvas size is 161 x 152.5 cm (63 x 60 in). [2]
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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.
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...