ANGELS OF THE ANDES
Saint Michael the Archangel
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Saint Michael the Archangel

Heaven's field marshal, painted in the same courtier-and-arquebus grammar as his militia.

Work
Oil on canvas
Artist / creator
Cusco School (anonymous)
Origin & date
Peru (Cuzco), 18th century
Held by
Philadelphia Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Format

The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.

Size

$24.00

The story

Michael is traditionally shown mid-combat — sword raised over a defeated devil — more often than he is shown at parade rest like his militia siblings, which makes an arquebusier-format Michael a genuine hybrid: the tradition's most senior archangel, folded into the same invented-militia costume built for lesser-known names like Eliel or Asiel.

As the archangel scripture and tradition already treat as heaven's commander, giving him the militia uniform makes an implicit argument: that the whole angel-wall genre imagines heaven organized exactly like a viceregal army, with Michael simply outranking the rest.

About this reproduction

  • • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Philadelphia Museum of Art, 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.
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