Archangel of The New World’s Death: Saint Michael

TYPE: research paper – art history

WORD COUNT: 2.8K WORDS

TOPIC: oil paintings & colonial spain | Sebastián López de Arteaga's saint michael and the bull.


KEY: "Archangels of Christianity are enveloped in an earnest and heartfelt reputation within the
faithful masses who acknowledge their roles as sincere messengers, deliverers of justice,
protectors of good, and punishers of evil. However, colonial Spaniards in the 17th century
incorporated a twist upon the archangels in order to impose a spiritual and physical conquest
onto the New World; where the 'good' is symbolized as the devout and the 'evil' interpreted as
the 'pagans'".