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
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
Glory (optical phenomenon)
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A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mis
Halo (religious iconography)
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Glory around the shadow of a plane. The position of the glory's centre shows that the observer was in front of the wings.
A solar glory and Brocken spectre
Illustration from Jorge Juan's and Antonio de Ulloa's, Voyage to South America (1748), depicting three separate scenes: (1) on the left, an erupting volcano; (2) on the upper right, optical glories surrounded by a fog bow; and (3) on the lower right, arcs of white light near a mountaintop
A solar glory and Brocken spectre from Crib Goch in 2008