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Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon
c. 1498 · Woodcut on paper (gravure sur bois, papier) · Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
For Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael · 29 September
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Michael drives his lance straight down, both hands on the shaft, and the sky leans with him. Angels swing a sword and draw a bow; beasts tumble with wings like torn sails, and far below a lake and a small town keep their ordinary day. The Met reads the sheet as Christianity triumphing over evil, Michael and his angels warring in heaven against the seven-headed dragon. It credits the cutting as much: with the Apocalypse series, Albrecht Dürer raised woodcut to the sophistication engraving had reached nearly three decades earlier, lines swelling and tapering into light, dark and space. The boats on the lake never look up.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, from "The Apocalypse"', 40.139.6(12); read 2026-09-24 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, from "The Apocalypse"', 19.73.131; read 2026-09-24
And there was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels.
Apocalypse 12:7 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)