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The Fall of the Rebel Angels | Andrea Commodi | 1612-14

The Fall of the Rebel Angels | Andrea Commodi | 1612-14

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In The Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 1612–14) by Andrea Commodi, the artist stages a tumultuous cascade of angels caught in mid-fall, their bodies twisting in a tightly packed vortex that reflects both divine drama and painterly ambition. The work was conceived as a design for a monumental fresco commission from Pope Paul V at the Quirinal Palace in Rome but ultimately abandoned, leaving this dynamic composition as the sole testimony of its scope.  Commodi’s indebtedness to Michelangelo is evident in the heroic musculature of the figures and the congested spatial drama. The absence of any divine judge or triumphant archangel emphasizes instead the raw, unmediated collapse of the rebellious, making the scene as much psychological as theological—a vision of sin’s consequence rather than its cosmic resolution.

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  • Title The Fall of the Rebel Angels (La Caduta degli angeli ribelli)
  • Artist Andrea Commodi (Italian early-Baroque painter and obsessive draughtsman; Florence, 1560 - Florence, 1638; pupil of Cigoli; active between Florence and Rome; teacher of Pietro da Cortona)
  • Year of creation 1612-1614 (this monumental oil sketch — a bozzetto on a grand scale — is a preparatory study for an end-wall fresco that Pope Paul V Borghese commissioned Commodi around 1612-1616 for the Cappella Paolina of the papal Quirinal Palace in Rome [the Palazzo del Montecavallo on the Quirinal Hill, today the residence of the President of the Italian Republic], where the fresco was intended to rival Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Commodi was uniquely suited to the challenge: a Florentine by birth, he had been an acquaintance of the Buonarroti family from his youth and had had early access to the corpus of Michelangelo's drawings still in their possession, which he copied faithfully throughout his life and on which he meditated obsessively. The chosen subject — the Fall of the Rebel Angels, taken from the Book of Revelation 12:7-9 and Isaiah 14, in which Lucifer and his followers, defeated in the war in heaven by St Michael and the loyal angels, are cast out of heaven and tumble eternally downward — allowed Commodi a tour-de-force of multiplied muscular nude bodies in violent foreshortened plunge, in unmistakable homage to Michelangelo's Cappella Sistina figures. For unclear reasons — possibly because the comparison with Michelangelo's terribilità became too daunting, possibly for political-curial reasons — the fresco was abandoned and never executed, leaving only this preparatory canvas and a small group of preparatory pen-and-ink studies, including two sheets at the British Museum and a series at the Uffizi's Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe. Commodi's pupil at this period was the young Pietro Berrettini, the future Pietro da Cortona, who would shortly become one of the towering figures of the Roman High Baroque)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on canvas (a preparatory bozzetto for a never-executed fresco)
  • Original dimensions 170.7 x 182.9 cm (some sources record dimensions approximately 5.6 x 6 feet, consistent with this metric size)
  • Collection/Museum Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence (one source places the bozzetto at the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, in the same museum complex; loaned in 2017 to the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, for the exhibition "An Obsession with Michelangelo")

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