Beings

Giovanni di Paolo
Angel of the Annunciation
1430
tempera and gold on panel
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Sano di Pietro
Angel of the Annunciation
ca. 1440-50
tempera and gold on pane
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Agostino di Duccio
Virgin and Child with Angels
ca. 1465
marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Bellini
Madonna of the Red Cherubs
1485
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Bernaert van Orley
Putto with Arms of Jacques Coëne
ca. 1513
oil on panel
(reverse of altarpiece painting)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Andrea Feltrini (Andrea di Cosimo)
Cherubs with Arms of Medici Pope
1515
fresco
Cappella dei Papi, Convento Domenicano di Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Battista Dossi
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist and an Angel
ca. 1530-40
oil on panel
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Paolo Veronese
St Agatha crowned by Cherubs
ca. 1580
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Orazio Gentileschi
St Francis supported by an Angel
1612-13
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Francesco Albani
Angels
ca. 1627-32
fresco (in ruinous condition)
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Galliera, Bologna

Jacques Stella
Christ in the Wilderness attended by Angels
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Michel Dorigny
Winged Putti bearing the Arms
of Anne of Austria, Regent of France
ca. 1659-61
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Michel Dorigny
Winged Putti bearing the Arms
of Anne of Austria, Regent of France
ca. 1659-61
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Domenico Piola and Niccolò Viviano
Ornamental Putti
ca. 1675
fresco
Palazzo Rosso, Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa

Anonymous Sienese Painter
St Christina of Bolsena tended by Angels
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
Collezioni della Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Niccolò Ricciolini
Putti crowning Statue of Armed God
before 1772
ceiling painting
Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata

Louisa Anne, Marchioness of Waterford
Putti with Peacocks
before 1891
watercolor on paper
(illustrating poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
British Museum

from Dream-Pedlary

If there are ghosts to raise,

        What shall I call,

Out of hell's murky haze,

        Heaven's blue hall?          

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book (1828)