Currently not on view
Archangel Michael
The Villarroya Master, Spanish, Aragonese, active late 15th century
y1936-3
In this panel, the Archangel Michael weighs the souls of two of the blessed, who kneel on the pans of a scale, attended by angels. He also fights the forces of Satan, plunging his spear into a devil that tries to claim the white-robed souls. While other saved souls look on from their ranks behind the Archangel, damned souls are guarded by devils and herded into the maw of Hell.
Information
Title
Archangel Michael
Maker
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
sight: 118.3 × 56.8 cm (46 9/16 × 22 3/8 in.)
frame: 149 × 77.5 × 5 cm (58 11/16 × 30 1/2 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
y1936-3
Place Made
Europe, Spain, Aragon
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Collection of Dan Fellows Platt by 1925; given to museum in 1936.
- Chandler Rathfon Post and Harold E. Wethey, A history of Spanish painting, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1930-66)., p. 408
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "A Painting by the Perea Master", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 3, no. 1 (Spring, 1944): p. 3-4., p. 3-4; figure
- Barbara T. Ross, "The Mather years 1922-1946," in "An art museum for Princeton: the early years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): p. 53–76., p. 65, fig. 17
