Jean-Baptiste d'Avrange
The Fall of the Angels

1782
Stucco alabaster
High altar, Church of St. Michael, Vienna, Austria

In the center Michael raises a flaming dart against the rebels. Revelation 12:7 calls their leader "the dragon," but here all the fallen angels are represented anthropomorphically.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.