Gorgeous Angels in Starring Roles

Niccolò di Liberatore
St Michael weighing Souls
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
Princeton University Art Museum

Fra Bartolomeo
Angel
ca. 1505-1507
drawing
(formerly owned by Giorgio Vasari)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Gerard David
Altarpiece of the Archangel Michael
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Raphael
Studies for Angel
ca. 1510-1511
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Lorenzo Lotto
Angel with Sceptre and Globe
1516
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

attributed to Lucas van Leyden
Angel
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Harvard Art Museums

Girolamo da Treviso
Archangel Gabriel
ca. 1530-40
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Bernardino Poccetti (Bernardino Barbatelli)
Angel
ca. 1600
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guillaume Courtois (il Borgognone)
St Michael vanquishing Lucifer
ca. 1660
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Anonymous French Artist
Angel in Clouds playing the Organ
17th century
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Anonymous Italian Artist
Angel
ca. 1725
bronze statuette
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Matthäus Günther
Archangel Michael subduing Demons
1743
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Josef Ignaz Mildorfer
Archangel Michael
ca. 1750
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Johann Rössler
Angel
1761
painted earthenware
(bozzetto for statue)
Národní Galerie, Prague

Gaetano Gandolfi
Angel
ca. 1764
drawing
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Odilon Redon
Fallen Angel
ca. 1875
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Museum Gouda

Death

Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again.
A great man in his pride

Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon

Supersession of breath;

He knows death to the bone –
Man has created death.

– W.B. Yeats (1933)