The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals (Part I)

ENGLAND, The Fall of the Rebel Angels [1862], a parian ware plaque by R. Jefferson after L. Giordano for the Art Union of London, St Michael with arms outstretched, flanked by heads of females behind him, three fallen angels in foreground, 185cm, 866.80g. Very fine; set in a circular ebony mount (300mm) with hook for suspension, the back with a pencil inscription “To Lois with love & kisses from Mr Neale, Oct. 20th 1944, when her Father was on holiday at Louth” £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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The fall of the rebel angels was one of the most dominant themes to the counter-Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which witnessed a resurgence of Catholicism against the Protestant reformation, as well as internal renewal within the Catholic Church. Several versions of the painting exist; Giordano’s is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, where it has been housed since 1785.