The fall of the rebelling angels
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| 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 .
Old peasant woman | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, 1564) | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, around 1556) | The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow | The country wedding | The peasant dance | The conversion of Paul | The Bethlehemite Child Murder | The fall of the blind | Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Galilee | Christ and the adulteress | The three soldiers | The gloomy day | The magpie on the gallows | River landscape with a sower | The yawn (?) | Great Tower of Babel | The port of Naples | The return of the flock | The haymaking | The wedding dance | The hunters in the snow | The battle between carnival and fasting | The children's games | Little Tower of Babel | The grain harvest | Christ Carrying the Cross | The cripples | Landscape with the Flight into Egypt | Landscape with the fall of Icarus (?) | Seascape with a burning city (?) | The misanthrope | The nest ejector | The Dutch proverbs | The sermon of John the Baptist | The land of milk and honey | Saul's suicide | The fall of the rebelling angels | Death of the virgin | The great Grete | The triumph of death | The Bethlehem Census | The wine for the feast of St. Martin | Winter landscape with ice skaters and bird trap | Two monkeys | Twelve Proverbs (?)
(?) Attribution controversial | Formerly attributed to Bruegel