The fall of the rebelling angels
The fall of the rebelling angels |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder , 1562 |
Oil on oak |
117 × 162 cm |
Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Brussels |
The oil painting The Fall of the Rebel Angels (also overthrow of the fallen angels or Engelsturz called) is a 1562 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder made representation of a biblical theme of hell fall . The picture shows the angels of God in light clothing or shimmering armor, as they fight down a swarm of demonic beings with grotesquely distorted faces. Several angels fight with blood-smeared swords or lances, others blow trumpets. The monsters are shown as chimeras with realistically reproduced characteristics of salamanders, amphibians, fish or insects.
The work has a long artistic tradition. Such complicated compositions of intertwined bodies had already been designed by the late Gothic painter Martin Schongauer . Mixed creatures with body parts that are exact images from the animal kingdom are part of Hieronymus Bosch's work .
The 117 centimeter high and 162 centimeter wide oak panel is now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. It is signed and dated 'MDLXII / BRVEGEL' lower left.
literature
- Anna Pawlak: Trilogy of the Search for God. Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. Fall of the fallen angels, triumph of death and Dulle Griet , Berlin 2011, pp. 25–86.
- Roger Marijhaben , Max Seidel : Bruegel . Belser, Stuttgart 1969, p. 45, 138 f .
Web links
- La chute des ans rebelles in the online catalog of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marijhaben, Seidel: Bruegel . 1969, p. 138 f .