Sculpture
Michael in stone, wood and bronze. Church portals and tympana, the spire figure and the weathervane, Epstein's bronze at Coventry, processional statues, and the carved altarpiece figures of Germany and Spain.
Part of Saint Michael
14 moments in this segment.
- - Byzantine - Archangel Michael with St Demetrius - Walters 426. Byzantine ivory or steatite panel of the Archangel Michael with Saint Demetrius, 11th century, Walters Art Museum.
- - Fall of the rebel angels - Peter Paul Rubens (Unframed). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
- - 'Saint Michael Archangel and the Devil' (17th-cent) by unidentified Hispano-Phillipine artist - Museo Nacional. Seventeenth-century Hispano-Philippine ivory or painting of Saint Michael and the devil, Museo Nacional de Artes, Mexico City; evidence of the Manila galleon trade in devotional art.
- - The Byzantine Archangel Ivory in the British Museum. Smarthistory examines a c. 525-50 ivory diptych leaf of an archangel, probably carved in Constantinople, showing the angel in late-antique court dress.
- - The Getty on a South German Fall of the Rebel Angels. A Getty Museum audio stop on an eighteenth-century South German or Austrian sculpture group of Michael casting down the rebel angels.
- - Archangel Michael statue at the San Miguel Church, Manila. Statue of the Archangel Michael at San Miguel Church, Manila, photographed 2013; Michael is widely venerated in Philippine Catholicism.
- - Museu de Arte Sacra Escultura São Miguel Arcanjo-0880. Brazilian colonial-era polychrome sculpture of São Miguel Arcanjo, Museu de Arte Sacra, São Paulo; photographed 2019.
- - Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia Chapel Capela Imagem São Miguel Arcanjo 2019-0363. Image of São Miguel Arcanjo in the Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia, Salvador, photographed 2019; Brazilian Baroque devotional sculpture.
- - Felicie de Fauveau's Saint Michael Lamp at the Louvre. Louvre curator Anne Dion-Tenenbaum presents the Saint Michael lamp commissioned c. 1829-30 from the Romantic sculptor Felicie de Fauveau. In French.
- - A Sixteenth-Century Saint Michael Sculpture. The Musee Boucher de Perthes in Abbeville documents a sixteenth-century sculpture of Saint Michael. In French.
- - An Angel in Ivory: Classicism and Christianity. Smarthistory conversation on a sixth-century Constantinopolitan ivory diptych panel of an archangel in the British Museum, an early image of the winged angel type.
- - Walters Art Museum Object Focus: The Archangel Michael Ivory. Curators examine a seventeenth-century ivory Michael, a work connecting African ivory, Asian carving and European devotion.
- - Saint Michael in Ivory: Manila and the Early Modern Globe. A museum lecture on a Michael sculpture carved in seventeenth-century Manila by Chinese immigrant sculptors working from Flemish prints in African ivory.
- - Medieval Georgian Relief Sculpture. Georgian stone relief carving of the medieval period, including the archangels that flank church facades and altar screens.