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Oak wood sculpture depicting Saint Michel, wearing a draped cape and held in place by a pectoral clasp. Northern France. 17th century. Height : 112 cm Damage, missing parts and worming. Expert : Stéphane Pépe

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Oak wood sculpture depicting Saint Michel, wearing a draped

Estimate 1 500 - 2 500 EUR

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beaune, France

Alexandre Landre Beaune
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Spanish school of the 17th century and later. "Archangel St. Michael". Carved and polychrome wood. Presents faults. Measurements: 106 x 64 x 46 cm. Wood carving representing the archangel St. Michael in full body, dressed in armor. He raises his right hand, in which he would brandish a sword with which he would be ready to finish off the devil (in this sculpture not represented). This is a dynamic and naturalistic work, with a classic work of anatomy. According to tradition, St. Michael is the head of the heavenly militia and defender of the Church. Precisely for this reason he fights against the rebellious angels and the dragon of the Apocalypse. He is also psychopomp, that is to say, he leads the dead and weighs the souls on the day of the Last Judgment. Scholars have linked his cult to that of several gods of antiquity: Anubis in Egyptian mythology, Hermes and Mercury in classical mythology, and Wotan in Norse mythology. In the West, the cult of St. Michael began to develop from the 5th and 6th centuries, first in Italy and France, and then spreading to Germany and the rest of Christendom. The kings of France gave him a particular veneration from the 14th century, and the Counter-Reformation made him the head of the church against the Protestant heresy, giving a new impulse to his cult. St. Michael the Archangel is therefore a military saint, and therefore patron saint of knights and of all trades related to arms, as well as to the scales, for his role as apocalyptic judge.

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Oak wood sculpture depicting Saint Michel, wearing a draped cape and held in place by a pectoral clasp. Northern France. 17th century. Height : 112 cm Damage, missing parts and worming. Expert : Stéphane Pépe

Oak wood sculpture depicting Saint Michel, wearing a draped

Bronze sculpture depicting the Archangel Michael, 19th century 75 x 63 cm

Saint Michael the Archangel, 19th century bronze sculpture on wooden base 65.5 x 20 x 15.2 cm false porphyry lacquered base inscription on the globe QUIS UT DEUS

A large anonymous figurative glazed ceramic sculpture, of an African sitting beauty. On a blackened oak base. Circa 1960-1970's. H: 76 cm

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