Themed images for Angel.

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 10:53 - Royal portal Christ on Earth. Chartres Cathedral. 06/04/2010.
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The right door of the Royal Portal at Chartres shows Mary holding Christ on her knee, below is the Presentation in the Temple. The bottom lintel shows the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, and the annunciation to the shepherds.

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 10:52 - Royal portal Ascension. Chartres Cathedral. 06/04/2010.
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The left hand doorway of Chartres Cathedral is decorated with an Ascension scene where Chist is accompanied by angels. The sculpture dates from the middle of the 12th century.

Sat, 04/03/2010 - 15:35 - Portal of Saint Anne. Notre Dame, Paris 03/04/2010.
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This tympanum, at Notre-Dame Paris, is dated to about 1150 and was once part of the earlier cathedral of St Stephen.

The central image is that of the Madonna and Child with censing angels on either side, the other two figures are the Bishop of Paris Maurice de Sully, and King Louis VII of France.

Fri, 09/16/2016 - 14:44 - Jacob Wrestling With An Angel - Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily 16/09/2016
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Dated between 1160 - 1170 this image of Jacob wrestling with an angel can be found in the Palatine Chapel, Sicily.

 

Sat, 09/17/2016 - 10:42 - 12C mosaic of Angel Gabriel at Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, Palermo Sicily Italy
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Mid 12th century mosaic of the Angel Gabriel in the Martorana, Palermo, Sicily.

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 12:01 - Detail Life of Mary Window. Chartres Cathedral France 28/04/2011
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This panel from the Life of Mary at Chartres Cathedral is a depiction of the [no-glossary]Annunciation[/no-glossary] of the birth of Christ to the shepherds. The two shepherds look upwards at an angel whilst their dogs jump up, and the sheep graze in the foreground.

Sat, 04/24/2010 - 16:04 - C13 Censing Angel. St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire 24/04/2010
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This figure of a censing angel is in the spandrel of the south transept crossing. This green winged figure dates from the first quarter of the 13th century.

Wed, 04/27/2011 - 13:20 - Reims Cathedral, France 27/04/2011
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These statues (1230-1255) are part of the entral portal of the north transept, known as the "Portail de la Vierge" of the western façade of Reims Cathedral. The two figures on the left depict the annunciation with Gabriel looking at the Virgin Mary, the figures on the right represent the visitation of Mary to Saint Elizabeth.

Wed, 04/27/2011 - 13:27 - Reims Cathedral, France 27/04/2011
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The central statue flanked by two angels is thought to represent St Denis. The saint is dated to about 1235, whilst the two angels date from about 1252.

 

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 15:19 - C13 Three Mary's at the Tomb. Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire,  04/09/2010.
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13th century sculpture above the west door of the church of St Mary, Higham Ferrers, depicting the Three Marys at the Tomb.

Wed, 04/27/2011 - 13:16 - Reims Cathedral, France 27/04/2011
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This sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin, above the central portal of Reims Cathedral, is a copy of the medieval sculpture.

Sat, 02/28/2009 - 13:39 - Medieval wall painting above chancel arch depicting censing angel and St. John C14 which is painted over an earlier C13 'Doom' (Last Judgment).
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14th century wall painting of a censing angel above the chancel arch at Burton Dassett in Warwickshire.
 

Fri, 07/11/2014 - 14:56 - East Window - Gloucester cathedral, Gloucestershire 11/07/2014
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This angel is on of a group of six panels above the main row of panels celebrating the Coronation of the Virgin in the east window at Gloucester cathedral. Five of the six panels are angels three of which are similar, having be designed from the same cartoon. The sixth panel is that of a Madonna and child and was most likely moved from the clerestory to replace a damaged panel.

Sat, 08/20/2011 - 14:18 - Detail 'Last Judgement'. St Mary's church Lutterworth, Leicestershire 20/08/2011.
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This is a detail of a 14th century "Last Judgement" painting above the chancel arch of John Wycliffe's church at Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. Here an angel, emerging from a cloud, is blowing a trumpet to call the dead to rise frrom their graves.

 

 

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:03 - Detail from 'Madonna with Child with Saints and Angels' by Cenni di Francesco - Accademia Florence 
09/092015
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Detail from tempera on wood painting of "Madonna with Child with Saints and Angels" (1375) by Cenni di Francesco, currently in the Accademia Florence but originally in the Church of San Donato in Polversa.

Sat, 08/20/2011 - 14:18 - Detail 'Last Judgement'. St Mary's church Lutterworth, Leicestershire 20/08/2011.
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This is a a detail of a 14th century "Last Judgement" painting above the chancel arch of John Wycliffe's church at Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. In this image two angels flank the figure of Christ who is sat on a rainbow displaying the marks of the Crucifixion.

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:44 - Detail from the 'Coronation of the Virgin' (1410) by Giovanni dal Ponte - Accademia Florence 09/09/2015
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This image of Gabriel is part of Giovanni dal Ponte's "Coronation of the Virgin" (c1410) located in the Accademia Florence.

Sat, 08/20/2011 - 14:08 - C15 alabaster tomb. St Mary's church. Lutterworth, Leicestershire 20/08/2011.
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Angel weeper on on front of tomb (c1410) top unknown couple at Mary's church, Leicestershire.

Thu, 08/27/2009 - 16:04 - Pieta from about 1420. The text reads:

'Gracious virgin, and friend to you Mother and Son grant that thanks to your company we should be crowned by your son'

Collegiate Church of St Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, France 27/08/2009.
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This early 15th century (1420) wall painting in the crypt of the church at Saint-Aignan in France is a pieta.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 12:09 - Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden (1425) - Masaccio
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Fresco painting by Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.

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