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Martin Schongauer

The Archangel Michael Piercing the Dragon

c. 1475
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The dragon of this print resembles monsters in another engraving by Martin Schongauer, The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1923.227).

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