Items matching angels (results page 1)

Front Cover, Moderne Kunst Vol IModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895)

The front cover of this huge book is a dark red; in the picture i have brightened it, thinking it probably faded over time. We have an ornate scrollwork border round the outside; we have angels with l [...]

Keywords: book covers, front covers, colour, borders, angels, cherubs

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Added: 2019-02-13

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Title Page, Cosmography and AstrologyThe Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

The title page to the section of The Gentleman’s Recreation is well-known for having the misspelling Cosmgrarhy at the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry

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Added: 2020-12-12

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Title Page Detail: Angel With WhipLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Jacob’s DreamChristian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

“A vision of beauty burst upon the soul of Jacob, as he laid his head upon a stone, and dreamed. He was a lone wanderer in the world, flying from a brother whom he had defrauded of his birthright, and [...]

Keywords: angels, cherubs, biblical scenes, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2005-06-01

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Angel MessengerEveryman (1930)

The angel messenger announces the start of the play “Everyman” with raised hand and sword. He wears an ankle-length cloak fastened with a broach around his neck and a belt above his waist, has wings a [...]

Keywords: angels, religion, christmas, wings, christianity, greyscale

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Added: 2015-12-19

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Gospel of MatthewThe Four Gospels (1931)

A dainty winged man wearing a flowing robe is holding up a sign that reads “The Gospel of Matthew”. There is one of these full-page engravings at the start of each of the four gospels in this book, e [...]

Keywords: evangelists, page images, christianity, saint matthew, angels, people, wings, men, bare feet, signs, iconography, greyscale

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Added: 2015-04-03

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The Angel of DeathEveryman (1930)

The angel of death is black; he wears a hood and in one skeletal hand holds a long sword. He has wings like the angel of light but they are black wings, not white wings. His face is that of a skull or [...]

Keywords: death, angels, black, despair, religion, christianity, greyscale

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Added: 2015-12-19

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The Harmony of the WorldAstrology (1806)

The Biblical references at the bottom of this picture as as follows:Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, planets, sun, heaven, stars, angels, colour

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Added: 2005-01-17

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From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

This image is taken from a fifteenth century “Speculum humanæ salvationis”, probably from the first Latin edition of around 1470. The panels represent the fall of Lucifer and the creation of Eve from [...]

Keywords: page images, religion, woodcuts, frames, angels, devils, demons, christianity, bible pictures, biblical scenes, greyscale

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Added: 2014-10-30

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Osanna in ExcelsisLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The phrase, Osanna in Excelsis (moer commonly written in English, Hosanna in Excelsis) in the form of a giant “E” with a decorative initial letter “O” containing angels, and a smaller E-within-the-e i [...]

Keywords: christmas, initials, angels, lettering, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2010-12-20

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Satan and BeelzebubInferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

The Victorious Avenging Angel with a spear, winged, standing barefoot on a rock, and all around him the turmoil of storm. The illustration is from the First Book of Paradise Lost: “Forthwith upright h [...]

Keywords: angels, mythical creatures, religionangels, demons, bare feet, storms, waves, wings, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-16

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Avenging AngelInferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

A detail from “Satan and Beelzebub” showing a Victorious Avenging Angel with a spear, winged, standing barefoot on a rock. I have isolated the angel (a cutout angel!) The illustration is from the Firs [...]

Keywords: angels, mythical creatures, bare feet, wings, greyscale

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Added: 2013-05-03

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103. Sonnet Introduction PageLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image. In the decoration, the angel, presumably representing love, is beckoning towards the writer. The text reads as follows: This sonnet has many parts: whereof the first tells how I felt [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, angels

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

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Added: 2005-11-13

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115. Love Hath So Long Possessed MeLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. Love hath so long possess’d me for his own And made his lordship so familiar That he [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, angels, christmas

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Angel from page 115La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The angel from page 115. The angel carries a music book (I think, or possibly a harp), and kneels with hands clasped as if in prayer. He wears a white robe and has golden wings. I cut out this detail [...]

Keywords: angels, christmas, colour, religion

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Painted miniature: a writer, with a castle in the backgroundBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

I suspect this is a complex emblem painting. A man with long curly hair sits barefoot on the grass, wearing a blue robe and with a red and gold cloak on his lap. He gazes heavenward for inspiration, [...]

Keywords: colour, scholars, angels, castles, bare feet, people, mediaeval, christmas

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Added: 2006-03-01

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Miniature painting of a scribe writing at a deskBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. A bearded scribe uses a quill pen to write in a book that rests on a wooden writing desk. He wears a blue gow [...]

Keywords: colour, scholars, people, books, angels, christmas

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Added: 2006-03-01

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Art Nouveau Nude Archer in ForestTypo Ornamenty (1990)

A boy or young man (based on his proportions) is about to fire an arrow from his bow. He is naked, barefoot, and has wings that reach down to his heels; there’s a strap over one shoulder, probably for [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, angels, mythological creatures, wings, winged, archery, forests, trees, woods, bare feet, boys, weapons, art nouveau, nonbinary, androgyny, greyscale

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Added: 2020-08-30

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Cherub with TriangleLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, a winged cherubs sits playing a musical instrument, a triangle. He is naked, and his eyes glance to one side. He has a curl of hair.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, angels, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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