In celestial choirs, bearing souls up to heaven, with wings or without, as God’s messengers or warriors in armour: however they appear, angels are easily recognizable, their images familiar from centuries of Christian art. Erika Langmuir takes ‘a closer look’ at the various roles of angels, archangels and guardians depicted in paintings from the National Gallery collection, and traces the history of angels in the Christian tradition.
Erika Langmuir examines the presence and surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art. She points out that angels need not be winged; they can wear antique dress, contemporary church vestments, secular fashions, armor, or nothing at all; their gender and age are uncertain; they may not even have bodies but appear only as winged heads; and they are not always good (Satan, of course, is a fallen angel). Langmuir explores these intriguing characteristics of angels by looking at some of the best-known and most engaging religious paintings in the Western tradition.
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