The Fall of the Rebel Angels
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
About the painting
The Fall of the Rebel Angels is an oil-on-panel painting of 1562 by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting is 117cm x 162cm (46 inches by 64 inches) and is now in the Oldmasters Museum (part of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) in Brussels, Belgium. The Fall of Rebel Angels depicts Lucifer along with the other fallen angels that have been banished from heaven. Angels are falling from the sun in a stacked manner along with ungodly creatures that Bruegel created.
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Bruegel's painting was previously thought to be by Hieronymus Bosch. Bruegel was influenced by a variety of artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Frans Floris I, and Hieronymus Bosch. He also got ideas for the creation of his creatures in his previous works.
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Image: Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Wikimedia Commons · public domain