St Michael Overcoming the Devil
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
about 1880-1930
Panel set within a red border showing St Michael wielding a sword with the devil held down under his foot.
size: 80 x 50 cm (dimensions of panel) [approx]
artist (after): Guido Reni
Church of St Michael, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent
sanctuary
A good example of a painted banner, for processional use on major festivals, and common in churches within the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries. The picture is a copy of 'St Michael slaying Lucifer' (1636) by Guido Reni (1575-1642) for Cardinal Franceso Barberini, and now in Sta Maria della Concezione, Rome. The features of Lucifer are those of (from 1644) Pope Innocent X. as painted by Velasquez.
Panel set within a red border showing St Michael wielding a sword with the devil held down under his foot.
size: 80 x 50 cm (dimensions of panel) [approx]
artist (after): Guido Reni
Church of St Michael, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent
sanctuary
A good example of a painted banner, for processional use on major festivals, and common in churches within the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries. The picture is a copy of 'St Michael slaying Lucifer' (1636) by Guido Reni (1575-1642) for Cardinal Franceso Barberini, and now in Sta Maria della Concezione, Rome. The features of Lucifer are those of (from 1644) Pope Innocent X. as painted by Velasquez.
Record added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 20-12-2011
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011. (with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
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