A CIRCULAR GILT-BRONZE RELIEF OF ST. MICHAEL SLAYING THE DEVIL

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A CIRCULAR GILT-BRONZE RELIEF OF ST. MICHAEL SLAYING THE DEVIL
ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY

Minor wear to gilding; drilled with a small hole at bottom centre. 6¾in. (17.2cm.) diam.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, p. 272, no. 154, pl. 180

Lot Essay

The general disposition of the figures, and especially of the vanquished Lucifer, is reminiscent of Guido Reni's celebrated altarpiece of this subject in Sta. Maria della Concezione, Rome (Pepper, loc. cit.).

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