St Michael Vanquishing Satan
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His face shows no strain. Charles Le Brun, reading the painting to the Académie in 1667, made the stillness the point: the arched brows mark his tranquillity, the mouth his contempt for the enemy. Two great wings hold Michael in the air; below him Satan is goat's horn, dragon wing and serpent tail. Le Brun saw the whole weight that fells him carried on the tip of one foot.
Raphael armored him all'antica, a cuirass of golden scales, Roman rather than contemporary plate — and sent him, so armed, as Leo X's gift to the court of François I.
Sources: Amy Fredrickson, Italian Art Society, March 2018 · Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, object page · Charles Le Brun, Première conférence tenue dans le Cabinet des Tableaux du Roy, samedi 7 mai 1667, on Raphael's Saint Michel; in André Félibien, ed., Conférences de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture pendant l'année 1667 (Paris: Frédéric Léonard, 1669) · Base Joconde, notice 000PE026976, « Saint Michel terrassant le démon ; dit Le Grand Saint Michel », Ministère de la Culture / Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine
And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation of John 12:9 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 21,680 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.