Crown of Immortality
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The Crown of Immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as a laurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars. The Crown appears in a number of Baroqu
The Crown of Immortality, held by the allegorical figure Eterna (Eternity) on the Swedish House of Knights fresco by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl
Wreathed worshipper of Apollo, from Cyprus, 475-450 BC
Gold wreath from ancient Macedonia
Candle-crowned Danish girls in a Lucia procession, 2001
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.
Crown of Immortality
…and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as a laurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars (often a crown, tiara, halo or aureola). The Crown appears in a number of Baroque iconographic and allegoric works of art to indicate the wearer's immortality. In ancient Egypt, the crown…
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