Tag: Saint Michael
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44 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings and Stories of The Angels; Saint Michael, Archangel, and Chief Commander, with footnotes, #22
This and other fragments in the Collection are from a large fresco of the ‘Fall of Lucifer’ which was painted for S. Michele Arcangelo in Arezzo, Italy. The scene shows Saint Michael and other angels fighting a war in heaven. The battle took place before God who was originally shown enthroned above, while Lucifer’s agents…
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Apollonio di GIOVANNI, The Virgin and Child between Saint Francis and Saint Michael01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 110
There remains a hint of the Gothic spirit of the Gothic in the dancing attitude of Saint Michael and the somewhat manicured gesture of his left hand, while the corpulence of the Virgin, that of the Child, the treatment in perspective of his halo testify to Apollonio’s sensitivity to the new Renaissance language. To these…
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