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St. Michael is an oil painting by Italian artist Raphael. Also called the Little St. Michael to distinguish it from a larger later treatment of the same theme St. Michael Vanquishing Satan it is housed in the Louvre in Paris. The work depicts the Archangel Michael in combat with the demons of Hell while the damned suffer behind him. Along with St. George it represents the first of Raphael’s works on martial subjects.
