Archangel Michael slaying the Dragon. Artist: Martin Schongauer between 1480 and 1485
Archangel Michael weighing souls Artist: Hans Memling between 1467 and 1471
Archangel Michael From a 14th century Constantinople workshop. Exhibited in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.
Archangel Gabriel
Archangel Gabriel
Archangel Gabriel
Archangel Gabriel
Archangel Raphael and Tobit- note the similarity to images of the Guardian Angel. Painted by Titian cca. 1542
Archangel Raphael teaches Adam and Eve. From Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
Archangel Raphael
Archangel Raphael
Archangel Raziel, Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 16th century
Archangel Uriel
Archangel Uriel
Archangel Uriel
Archangel Uriel
Archangel Uriel
Archangel Zadkiel Plate from a set of nine plates representing the Archangels in full-length; Zadkiel sitting on a rock in his left hand holding a sword; in the background “Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac” is depicted Engraving with etching by Crispijn de Passe the Elder cca. 1590-1637 (c.)
Archangel Zadkiel by Fernando Sayan Polo
Archangel Zadkiel by Fernando Sayan Polo
Archangel Anael Pictures of Anael are hard to come by – though we can find an analog in images of Venus or Aphrodite.
Archangel Anael Anael is often depicted by various angels of music, love, inspiration, peace, etc. Muses also fit here.
Archangel Samael
Samael as haSahtan. Samael was sometimes identified with haSatan, the adversary in Judaism. Illustration by Gustave Dore
Archangel Samael. Some people believe that Samael is the angel who fought Jacob. According to Jewishencyclopedia.com, this idea is met in the rabbinical literature. Title: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel Artist: Gustave Doré Date: 1885
Archangel Samael. Some people believe that Samael is the angel who fought Jacob. According to Jewishencyclopedia.com, this idea is met in the rabbinical literature. Title: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel Artist: Alexandre-Louis Leloir Date: 1865
Archangel Samael, angel of Death Some people believe that Samael is the angel killed the firstborn. Artist: William A. Foster Date: 1891
Archangel Samael, angel of Death and Passover The angel is going through King Pharaoh’s land. He is going through it in the night. The angel will go into King Pharaoh’s house and make his son to die. He will go into all the people’s houses and make their sons to die because they have been so cruel to the Israelites. But the angel will not go into the houses where the Israelites live, to make their sons die. God told the Israelites that the angel was coming, and he told them to kill a lamb, and take its blood and sprinkle it over the doors of the houses. And when the angel saw the blood, God said, he would not come into the house to hurt them. In the picture we see the blood sprinkled over the door and at each side of it. The angel sees the blood. He will pass over this house and not harm any one in it. We can see the family inside. They are eating the Feast of the Passover.” Illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us: Containing 400 Illustrations from the Old and New Testaments: With brief descriptions by Charles Foster
Azrael or Cassiel Azrael and Cassiel are other two angels thought to be Angels of Death. This was painted in 188
Cassiel, as depicted in Francis Barrett’s “The Magus” in 1801
