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A few further images of the Archangel Michael:
as depicted in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century portable icon (fourteenth- and nineteenth-century reworking and restorations) in the treasury of the basilica di San Marco in Venice:
http://tinyurl.com/6b77co4
http://tinyurl.com/6jfpzd7
as depicted in an earlier eleventh-century mosaic (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/6hb4p8w
as depicted in an eleventh-century fresco in the cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv / Kiev:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=1094
as depicted (at right) in the presentation illumination of a later eleventh-century manuscript of Constantinopolitan origin of the sermons of St. John Chrysostom (Paris, BnF, ms. Coislin 79, fol. 2b):
http://tinyurl.com/5tve94b
as depicted in a twelfth-century portable icon in St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai:
http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/cart23.jpg
as depicted (at lower left) in a mid-twelfth-century dome mosaic (betw. 1146 and 1151) in the chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo:
http://www.pbase.com/giancarlob/image/96095362
as depicted in a mid-twelfth-century vault mosaic (betw. 1146 and 1151) in the chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/yfyg3uc
NB: the locations in the church of this and of the previous image may be seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/6ge68to
as depicted in a later twelfth-century fresco (betw. 1176 and 1200) in St. George's Church, Staraya Ladoga (Leningrad oblast):
http://tinyurl.com/5txqyse
as portrayed (at right, crowning the emperor Isaac II Angelos) on the reverse of a Byzantrine aspron trachy from the first reign (1185-1995) of the aforesaid emperor:
http://tinyurl.com/5w8w7f4
A German-language data sheet on this coin:
http://tinyurl.com/6g6ox8b
as depicted in a late twelfth-century fresco (1191) in the church of St. George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3678
http://tinyurl.com/6csbh8l
http://tinyurl.com/6yjlon9
as depicted in a thirteenth-century Yaroslavl School icon now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://tinyurl.com/6zqgqya
as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (either ca. 1263-1270 or slightly later) of the monastery church of the Holy Trinity at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/3u5euyk
http://tinyurl.com/3v5gemc
as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and
Eutychius in the church of St. George in Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/44q8p5v
as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1314 and ca. 1320) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychius in the church of St. Nikita at Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3le79a7
http://tinyurl.com/43srs3a
as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1315 and 1321) of the parecclesion of the Chora church in Constantinople:
http://tinyurl.com/3uajute
as depicted in an early fifteenth-century Moscow School icon (1408) now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://tinyurl.com/6ladarg
Images of other depictions of Michael are linked to in this year's notice of Miracle of Chonae (6. Sep.):
http://tinyurl.com/3q8u4dj
A bonus image. The British Museum possesses a fifth-century ivory leaf from a diptych portraying an unnamed archangel often but not always identified as Michael. Expandable views of this object will be found on these two pages from the British Museum, the first (and seemingly more recent) forthrightly identifying the archangel as Michael and the second (seemingly a bit older) declining to name him:
http://tinyurl.com/22p85hr
http://tinyurl.com/6jlqepo
Best,
John Dillon
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