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Spanish School, XVII century. "Archangel St. Michael". Polychrome wood carving. Presents losses, dirt and lack of polychrome. The sword is missing. Measurements: 85 x 29 x 24 cm. Devotional sculpture of baroque period. It represents the archangel Michael defeating a diabolic creature. This one presents anthropomorphic attributes. Miguel is the one in charge of the celestial hosts, to defend the kingdom of the Heavens before the onslaughts of the evil. He wears the attire of a Roman soldier. The air stirs his short skirt and his dynamic gesture imprints movement to the whole, clearly responding to the stylistic parameters of the period.

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Spanish School, XVII century. "Archangel St. Michael". Polychrome wood carving. Presents losses, dirt and lack of polychrome. The sword is missing. Measurements: 85 x 29 x 24 cm. Devotional sculpture of baroque period. It represents the archangel Michael defeating a diabolic creature. This one presents anthropomorphic attributes. Miguel is the one in charge of the celestial hosts, to defend the kingdom of the Heavens before the onslaughts of the evil. He wears the attire of a Roman soldier. The air stirs his short skirt and his dynamic gesture imprints movement to the whole, clearly responding to the stylistic parameters of the period.

Estimate 600 - 800 EUR
Starting price 400 EUR

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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.