Focusing much of his attention on contemporary pop culture, LaChapelle has created numerous surreal portraits of celebrities, such as the present work, depicting Michael Jackson as an archangel ...

The archangel Michael is specifically named in the Bible within three books — Daniel, Jude and Revelation. In Daniel, Michael is mentioned on only three different occasions, but the words used ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel stands in the center of Kyiv, depicted with a shield and a sword, as the protector of the capital of Ukraine and the entire country, which is now threatened ...

In the 16th century, St. Michael the Archangel appeared on the coat of arms of Kyiv. But in 1969, during the regime of the Soviet Union, the authorities replaced his figure with chestnut leaves.