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Castilian School Artist, Archangel St. Michael Defeating the Devil, Late 17th Century, Carved & Gilded Wood
Valladolid, ES
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Magnificent Castilian carving of the Archangel St. Michael defeating the devil made at the end of the 17th century. The …
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Magnificent Castilian carving of the Archangel St. Michael defeating the devil made at the end of the 17th century. The artistic imprint denotes the typical Castilian traces in the conception and interpretation of the theme. The sculptural quality is exquisite, this allows us to frame the attribution to a circle close to the wake left by Gregorio Fernandez (1576 - 1636).
The artist responsible for the creation of this magnificent carving was undoubtedly trained in the footsteps of Fernández in the Castilian Baroque context. It powerfully reminds us of the Archangel Saint Michael preserved in the reliquary of the Church of San Miguel in Valladolid; belonging to the first third of the 17th century. Both carvings present great parallelism in the spatial conception, in the configuration of the draperies and in the exquisite treatment of the gilding.
In the 19th century the carving was redecorated in a restoration carried out at the end of the 19th century. At present it has been restored to enjoy again all its brightness (Dec.2022).
Iconography
The devotional image represented in the set is the Archangel Saint Michael defeating the devil. He is dressed with military armor, sword, tights and a vaporous mantle of marked flight. He usually appears carrying a buckler and baton; in this case it has been replaced by a sword and a blade with the inscription Q.S.D. ("Quis Sicur Deus", derivation of "Quis ut Deus", known as the war cry of the archangel, which expresses the celestial call the confession of monotheistic faith before God and his triumph. Translation: "Who is like God?"). St. Michael is the defender of faith and truth, the ruler of heaven and the prince of the heavenly choirs. Evil is usually represented as a dragon, however, it adopts an anthropomorphic form, it is a character of human appearance with horns and a serpent or dragon's tail.
Provenance
This magnificent piece comes from a private collection in Valladolid. It is worth mentioning the literary work created by the writer Enrique López Vallejo (Valladolid, 1958) "La culpa fue de Baudelaire". It is an autobiography of sarcastic and erudite tone where he describes his life marked by the bourgeois, cultured and refined origin of his family.
On page 20, the author makes repeated reference to the sculpture of the Archangel St. Michael that his "grandmothers" owned in the luxurious piano room. He also describes the provenance and origin of the piece, which was gilded by his great-great-grandfather, a specialist gilder who was also responsible for the gilding of the main altarpiece of the Church of Las Angustias (Valladolid).
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