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2. Angels in art - Wikipedia

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   Normally given wings in art, angels are usually intended, in both Christian and Islamic art, to be beautiful, though several depictions go for more awe-inspiring or frightening attributes, notably in the depiction of the living creatures (which have bestial characteristics), ophanim (which are wheels) and cherubim (which have mosaic features ...

3. Unnerving ‘biblically accurate’ angels top Christmas trees ...

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   A Christmas tree topper made by Rev. Kira Austin-Young and her husband Michael Schupbach depicting a biblically accurate angel. AP The Bible has sparse descriptions of what angels are actually ...

4. Christmas angels - Wikipedia

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   The Ore Mountain folk art angel figures excel in their great depiction as a small-size version. [1] The first carved angels can already be found at the end of the 15th century. To cover the increased demand for Christmas angels due to the spread of Christmas customs, turners from Seiffen developed a lathed angel figure in 1830. The figure held ...

5. Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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   The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition. Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.

6. Bernhard Plockhorst - Wikipedia

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   The Good Shepherd The Guardian Angel. Plockhorst was born in Braunschweig, Germany, where he had a 5-year education in lithography at the Collegium Carolinum, after which he trained to be a painter with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Dresden in 1848, with Carl von Piloty in Leipzig and Munich, and finally with Thomas Couture in Paris in 1853.

7. Virgin and Child with Four Angels - Wikipedia

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   Painted for private devotion, it shows a full-length Mary holding Jesus. Mother and son are surrounded by four angels; the two above Mary are adorned with large colourful wings and hold a golden crown, symbolising her role as Queen of Heaven [4] while another two, each bearing large wings, sit on either side of her playing a harp and lute respectively.