Angels in art
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Angels have appeared in works of art since early Christian art, and they have been a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.
Song of the Angels (1881) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905)
Ezekiel's "chariot vision", by Matthaeus Merian (1593–1650), displaying several different types of angelic creatures.
Auf zarten Saiten by Ephraim Moses Lilien, 1900
12th-century icon of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel wearing the loros of the Imperial guards.
Cherub
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A cherub is one type of supernatural being in the Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden.
Angels in art
…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); As a matter of theology, they are spiritual beings who do not eat or excrete and are genderless. Many historical depictions…
A tetramorph cherub, in Eastern Orthodox iconography
An ivory from Tel Megiddo showing a king sitting on a throne which is supplicated by a sphinx-esque winged hybrid.
Depiction of the "cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat" (Julius Bate, 1773)
Throne of Astarte from the Temple of Eshmun, the legs formed by two winged hybrid creatures.