Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael

Italian

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During the late Middle Ages devotion to the archangel Michael, believed to have vanquished Satan, intensified. Michael's armor, rendered in silver, suggests his role as the patron of knights and warriors. His halo seems to give his hair a golden luminosity.

Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael, Tempera, gold, silver, ink on parchment, Italian

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Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael, Tempera, gold, silver, ink on parchment, Italian
Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael, Tempera, gold, silver, ink on parchment, Italian

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