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I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.

2 Timothy 1:12

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My Bulgaria - Rock Monastery St. Dimitar Basarbovski (2) (3) (4) by Lyura

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How do I be cool like Jesus Christ

Be kind

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St. Michael and the dragon

While this took me a whole lot of time to finish, I am very pleased with the end result, both compositionally and in regard to the colour scheme.

The idea for the ornate, white armour in particular came from an illustration of St. Michael in the book of hours of Henry IV of France, which looks like this:

Also, fun-fact: my hometown celebrates an annual little festival, which as its centre piece features a moving mechanical figure of St. Michael slaying the devil, the colour-scheme of which I also referenced for this painting.

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Close-ups:

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Saint Bride (John Duncan, 1913)

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Annunciation (Gustave Max Stevens, 1897)

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‘Jesus Christ in Sorrow in Gethsemane’ - Carl Heinrich Bloch

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The Annunciation (1852)

Yakov Fedorovich Kapkov

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"The angel sitting on the coffin" (1908/1911)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

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Ely Cathedral by leevistal.

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Une Martyre, Saint Thechla, 1891 - oil on canvas.

— Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (USA, 1847–1906)

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Angel statue covered in ivy at the Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, USA by Karen Larsen

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