Saint+Michael+the+Archangel+and+the+Devil

Date: ca. 1955-1956
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.65.256A-H_1a.jpg?itok=6GlRNzSg width="281" height="355" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/saint-michael-archangel-and-devil-14910"]] || Title: **Saint Michael the Archangel and the Devil**

Artist: **George Lopez** Born: Cordova, New Mexico 1900 Died: Cordova, New Mexico 1993

Medium: carved aspen and Palo Duro (mountain mahogany) Dimensions: 48 x 33 x 39 1/2 in. (122.0 x 83.8 x 100.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.256A-H || As foretold in the book of Revelation, Saint Michael the Archangel will fight an apocalyptic battle against Satan, who will wage this last war in the form of a dragon. In this carving the artist depicts an ominous, sharp-clawed devil as part snake, part insect.
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"And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven."  —Revelation 12:7-8

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