Battle of the Archangel Michael and the Satan

The militant office, stated in full

Michael holds the fighting office in the tradition, and this title names both parties to it. That is as explicit as the vocabulary of rank gets: an archangel, by name, and his fixed adversary. Eight of the 224 titles in this catalogue name Michael and sixteen contain the word archangel, which makes him the most frequently named individual in the collection by some distance.

What the record holds

The catalogue carries no date for this entry and gives Tintoretto, a Italian painter, with Mannerism Late Renaissance as the style term. The recorded dimensions are 318 x 220 cm. The measured colour families are pink and red. The location on record is Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.

No date on the record

The catalogue carries no date for this entry, and that gap is worth stating rather than filling. Everything else is on file: a location in Dresden, a format at altar scale, a style term, and a measured palette that registers as pink and red — pink appears in only four of the 224 entries here. This painter has five works in the catalogue. Where a picture sits in his career is not something this record can establish, and no attempt is made here.