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Meg,
I just googled "Petrus Christus Last Judgement" and got a huge number of
images.
Jim
On 25/04/2012 9:47 AM, Madeleine Gray wrote:
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> Wow - do you have an online version of that last one, Jim?
>
> Maddy
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] St Michael
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> Hello Meg,
> Almost any image of the Fall of the Rebel Angels will show some aspect
> of this: my favourite is that in the Tres Riches Heures, although St
> Michael is fairly anonymous among the group of good angels dressed like
> contemporary soldiers. There is also the remarkable wing panel of a
> triptych attributed to Petrus Christus in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin,
> dated 1452, depicting the Last Judgement in which, instead of weighing
> souls, St Michael in plate armour brandishes a sword at a prone figure
> of the devil while he stands on the outstretched arms of Death,
> represented as a huge skeleton forming the vault of hell -- another of
> my favourites!
> Jim
>
> On 25/04/2012 4:56 AM, Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
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>> Greetings all,
>> I'm reading an article in which the archangel Michael is fairly prominent, and in which he is described as, in effect, leading a cavalry charge of angels against the forces of evil. I am far more familiar with images of him fighting the devil in the form of a serpent, with a lance/spear as his weapon. My questions for the list is whether those of you familiar with the iconography can provide information about either pictures or texts which depict him:
>> 1) on horseback
>> 2) leading an angelic host, whether on horseback or on foot
>> 3) wielding a sword
>> 4) wielding a spear or lance
>> 5) weighing souls
>> 6) leading souls to heaven
>> and, of course, any combination of the above!
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Meg
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