Saint Michael and the Dragon

ca. 1480-1490 (Late Medieval)

41.1 cm 114.9 cm 27 cm

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The archangel Michael was widely honored as a saint, in which role he is sometimes shown without his customary wings. Wearing the armor of a 15th-century knight, he is represented as defender of the Church against the devil, here symbolized by the dragon. Saint George is als...

Sculpture

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1384
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sculpture
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normalized
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provenance
Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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import
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style
late Gothic
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