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The archangel is usually identified as Michael, and the panel is assumed to have formed the right part of a diptych, with the lost left half possibly depicting Emperor Justinian (reigned 527–565), [1] to whom the archangel would be offering the insignia of imperial power.
Michael, [Notes 1] also called Saint Michael the Archangel, ... Tenth-century gold and enamel Byzantine icon of St Michael, in the treasury of the St Mark's Basilica .
In most depictions Michael is represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield, [2] in the style of a Byzantine officer, which is typically found even in Western depictions, though some late-medieval ones have him in contemporary knightly armour.
The Church of the Archangel of the Metropolis or Taxiarchis of the Metropolis (Greek: Ιερός Ναός Ταξιάρχη Μητροπόλεως) is a Byzantine church in the medieval old city of Kastoria, in northern Greece. Dedicated to the Archangel Michael, it was built in the 9th or 10th century.
Brown suggests that "Byzantine artists drew, consciously or not, on this iconography of the court eunuch". [14] Daniel 10: 5–6 describes an angel as clothed in linen and girt with gold. [5] Angels, especially the archangel Michael, who were depicted as military-style agents of God, came to be shown wearing Late Antique military
The larger of the two early-Christian closure slabs, found inside the Church of Archangel Michael with a Byzantine cross. The slab was part of the sculpted balustrade of an earlier Basilica. [2] Angelokastro is one of the most important fortified complexes of Corfu.
The Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel is a Roman Catholic devotional scapular associated with Saint Michael. Pope Pius IX gave to this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII who sanctioned the Archconfraternity of the Scapular of Saint Michael. [36] St. Michael defeating Satan by Carlo Crivelli, 15th ...
The term archangel itself is not found in the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament, and in the Greek New Testament the term archangel only occurs in 1 Thessalonians 4 (1 Thessalonians 4:16) and the Epistle of Jude (), where it is used of Michael, who in Daniel 10 (Daniel 10:12) is called 'one of the chief princes,' and 'the great prince'.