Thomas Crawford Peri at the Gates of Paradise 1854 marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Joseph Matthias Götz Angel ca. 1735-40 giltwood (altarpiece fragment) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Angel ca. 1585-90 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Bernardino Poccetti (Barbatelli) Seated Angel ca. 1595-1610 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Fritz von Uhde Model posed as Angel ca. 1908-1910 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Amor Caritas ca. 1880 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Domenico del Barbiere after Rosso Fiorentino Gloria ca. 1535-36 engraving Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Willem van Swanenburg after Maarten van Heemskerck Devil and Man with Loot and Statue of Hope 1609 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Anonymous Venetian Artist Angel of the Annunciation ca. 1340 marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Meissen Manufactory (Dresden) Bound Cupid ca. 1900 porcelain National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
Charles Meynier Clio, Muse of History 1800 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Pier Francesco Mola Studies of Musical Angels ca. 1635 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Peter Flötner Study for Allegorical Figure of Fortuna or Nemesis ca. 1525 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen Angel Musician 1545 etching and engraving Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Fra Bartolomeo Cherub ca. 1509 drawing (study for painting) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy Eros 3rd century BC painted terracotta Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Poem
Wakening with the window over fields
To the coin-clear harness-jingle as a float
Clips by, and each succeeding hoof fall, now remote,
Breaks clean and frost-sharp on the unstopped ear.
The hooves describe an arabesque on space,
A dotted line in sound that falls and rises
As the cart goes by, recedes, turns to retrace
Its way back through the unawakened village.
As the cart goes by, recedes, turns to retrace
Its way back through the unawakened village.
And space vibrates, enlarges with the sound;
Though space is soundless, yet creates
From very soundlessness a ground
From very soundlessness a ground
To counterstress the lilting hoof fall as it breaks.
– Charles Tomlinson (1951)