# Statutes of the Order of Saint-Michel [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Manuscript ## Commentary Statutes of the Order of Saint-Michel c. 1550 Manuscript Bibliothèque Municipale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye The picture shows a manuscript illustration from the statutes of the Order of Saint-Michel. This Order, the French equivalent of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, was established in 1469 by Louis XI. The miniature, painted around 1550 by the Master of the Getty Epistles, a court illuminator, represents St Michael triumphing over the Devil. Its composition is based on a <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raphael/5roma/5/03satan.html'\)" HREF="/html/r/raphael/5roma/5/03satan.html">famous painting by Raphael.</A> ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()