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拍品专文
According to museum archives, this picture was formerly signed 'Reg. pict. Anto. Palomof.' (on the reverse, lower edge).
Palomino was perhaps the greatest of the Spanish Baroque fresco painters. His technique and style were crucially influenced by the arrival in Madrid in 1692 of Luca Giordano, resulting in a fusion of the Neapolitan style with his own Madrid training. Works such as those in the great vault of the church of the Santos Juanes, Valencia (since destroyed), and in the chapel of the Virgen de los Desamparados, Valencia, show Palomino's grasp of the Neapolitan unified sense of space. Palomino painted many works on canvas, many of which were originally commissioned as altarpieces, and of which one of the finest, an Immaculate Conception, is in the Prado.
The Archangel Saint Michael was the leader of the celestial armies, and the prince of all the Angels. In the Old Testament he had been the guardian of the Hebrew nation, although his origins probably lie in ancient Persian religion. The episode depicted here comes from the Book of Revelation (12: 7-9), which describes the struggle between Satan and Saint Michael: 'Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels waged war upon the dragon...So the great dragon was thrown down, that serpent of old...'
Palomino was perhaps the greatest of the Spanish Baroque fresco painters. His technique and style were crucially influenced by the arrival in Madrid in 1692 of Luca Giordano, resulting in a fusion of the Neapolitan style with his own Madrid training. Works such as those in the great vault of the church of the Santos Juanes, Valencia (since destroyed), and in the chapel of the Virgen de los Desamparados, Valencia, show Palomino's grasp of the Neapolitan unified sense of space. Palomino painted many works on canvas, many of which were originally commissioned as altarpieces, and of which one of the finest, an Immaculate Conception, is in the Prado.
The Archangel Saint Michael was the leader of the celestial armies, and the prince of all the Angels. In the Old Testament he had been the guardian of the Hebrew nation, although his origins probably lie in ancient Persian religion. The episode depicted here comes from the Book of Revelation (12: 7-9), which describes the struggle between Satan and Saint Michael: 'Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels waged war upon the dragon...So the great dragon was thrown down, that serpent of old...'