Saint Michael the Archangel
Cusco School (anonymous), 18th century
$191
Print check at 16 x 20 in: 156 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.5% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Michael is traditionally shown mid-combat — sword raised over a defeated devil — more often than he is shown at parade rest like his militia siblings, which makes an arquebusier-format Michael a genuine hybrid: the tradition's most senior archangel, folded into the same invented-militia costume built for lesser-known names like Eliel or Asiel. As the archangel scripture and tradition already treat as heaven's commander, giving him the militia uniform makes an implicit argument: that the whole angel-wall genre imagines heaven organized exactly like a viceregal army, with Michael simply outranking the rest.
- Maker
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00142
| Picture | 16 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 21.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 312 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 11 x 14 in | 227 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.8% |
| 12 x 16 in | 204 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.8% |
| 16 x 20 in | 156 | Good | Trimmed 4.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 136 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,502 x 3,276 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 36, lights 196 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.65
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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