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 83
)ed in heaven,—they are really angel-wings, not bird-wings. Orcagnas angels in the Campo Santo are, in this respect, peculiarlypoetical. Their extremities are wings instead of limbs ; and in afew of the old Italian and German painters of the fifteenth centurywe find angels whose extremities are… … ^J ]•- Anpels. (OiTas,UH.) in some instances, of flames. The cherubim and serai)him whichsurround the similitude of Jehovah when He appears to Moses in the burning bush,^ are an example of thesublime and poetical signiticance whichmay be given to this kind of treatment.They have heads and human…
Christian art and symbolism · Angels · Christian saints
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