The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse
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| Artist | Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) |
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| Date | c. 1623–1624 |
| Museum | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
| Accession | 85.PB.146 |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 64.5 × 49.8 cm (25 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
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God the Father gives an order, and an angel fits a pair of wings to Our Lady's shoulders. She carries the Christ Child upward and treads on the serpent coiled around the moon. The Getty's curators set out the rest: at the left Saint Michael and his angels throw down the seven-headed red dragon, and the demons fall as Virgin and Child rise. The wings are the ones the Apocalypse gives the woman, to fly from the serpent. Rubens made this oil sketch as the modello for the high altar of Freising Cathedral, and his quick strokes keep everything in motion, down and up at once.
Sources: J. Paul Getty Museum, 'The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse', 85.PB.146, via Google Arts & Culture, read 2026-09-24 · ArtLark, 'The Wings of Rubens' Virgin as Woman of the Apocalypse' (2022), read 2026-09-24
And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Apocalypse 12:14 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,049 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.