Aureola
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An aureola or aureole is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure.
17th century Central Tibetan thanka of Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra, Rubin Museum of Art
Images of Mary, mother of Jesus, are often surrounded by an aureole, as in this image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Resurrection of Christ, fresco in Chora Church, Istanbul
Christ in Majesty shown within a mandorla shape in a medieval illuminated manuscript
Halo (religious iconography)
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A halo, also called a nimbus, aureole, glory or gloriole, is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religion
Aureola
…In Romance languages, the noun Aureola is usually more related to the disc of light surrounding the head of sacred figures, which in English is called halo or nimbus. In Indian religions, the back or head halo is called prabhāmaṇḍala or prabhavali. In the earliest periods of Christian art it was confined to the…
Standing Buddha with a halo, 1st–2nd century AD (or earlier), Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara
Octadrachm of Ptolemy III
Coin of Indo-Greek king Menander II (90–85 BCE), displaying Nike with a halo on the reverse
Muhammad leads Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others in prayer. Persian miniature, 15th century