Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 104
Fl!;. 153.—SCULPTURfO) ANGEL, CHARTRES, XIII. CENT. [D.] ANGELS IN WESTERN AET. 93 love to spiritualise the angels. They often leave themnothing more of the human form than the head, that is,the seat of intelligence. Nothing is more common, even inthe paintings of Perugino, at the dawn of the… … Fig. 154.—ANGELS. (Piero della Francesca.) Eenaissance, than to see angels figured by infant heads,surrounded by six wings. Sometimes Italian artists likoto furnish these angels with a body, and in doing so theycut off the body below the bust.* The lower portion of thetrunk being intended for…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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