The Archangel Jophiel
A less common militia name — "the Beauty of God" — in the same plumed-and-armed dress.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Origin & date
- Peru, 18th century
- Held by
- Phoenix Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Jophiel (sometimes "God's Beauty") is a rarer name in the arquebusier-angel canon than Eliel, Uriel, or Gabriel — a sign of how deep the apocryphal angel-lists that fed this genre actually ran. The costume is the familiar uniform: doublet, plumed hat, an arquebus shouldered like a courtier's cane, the same militia grammar repeated with a different name stitched underneath.
That repetition is the tradition's whole method — one visual template, redeployed across dozens of named angels so a patron could commission a full company at once, each canvas individual only in its inscription.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Phoenix Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)’s open-access release.
- • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. The heirloom frame is gold, under acrylic, with no mount.
- • Color-managed to the source scan.
- • Ships in 5–9 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
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