Sacred and legendary art : containing legends of the angels and archangels, the evangelists, the apostles, the doctors of the Church and St. Mary Magdalene as represented in the fine arts (1911)
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 116
onym for angel, Bird of God; and hence also avariety and picturesqueness in the expression of the movements of the heavenly hierarchiesby the earlier painters, ill replaced by the powers of foreshortening and throwing naked limbsinto fantastic positions, which appear in the cherubic groups of later… … 30 Archangels. (Ciinabue. In San Francesco dAssisi.) The SevenAVho in Gods presence, nearest to His throne,Stand ready at command.—Milton. Having treated of tlie celestial Hierarchy in general, we have now toconsider those angels who in artistic representations have assumed anindividual form and…
Christian art and symbolism · Angels · Christian saints
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