Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
Revelation gives the war in heaven a single line and Dürer gives it a whole sheet. Michael drives the spear down with both hands and his face is perfectly calm; below the fight, a Franconian valley goes on about its business, town and river and hills, entirely unaware. The block was cut in 1496 or 1497 for a book Dürer wrote, designed, printed and sold himself — the first in the history of art.
And there was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels.
Revelation of John 12:7 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 5,026 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.