Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Angels (European Visual Tradition) - I

Anonymous German Artist
Musical Angel
ca. 1300-1350
painted lindenwood relief
(altarpiece fragment)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca)
Musical Angels
1372
tempera on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Nicolás Francés
Fall of the Rebel Angels
ca. 1440
tempera on panel
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Isaia da Pisa
Tabernacle with Angels
ca. 1461-63
marble relief
(fragment from Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome)
Art Institute of Chicago

Master of the Benda Madonna
Angel of the Annunciation
ca. 1490-1500
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Angel of the Annunciation
ca. 1513
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Artist after Domenico Beccafumi
Angel
ca. 1525-50
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anonymous Italian Artist after Raphael
Model posing as Angel
16th century
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Master of Serumido
Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael
with Tobias and a Donor

cs. 1520-25
oil on panel
Yale University Art Gallery

Hans Bock the Elder
Fall of the Rebel Angels
ca. 1582
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Annibale Fontana
Angel
ca. 1583-84
wax
(modello for statue)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Annunciatory Angel
ca. 1575-1600
oil on copper
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

Raffaellino del Garbo
Virgin and Child with Musical Angels
ca. 1496-98
oil and tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bernardino Poccetti (Bernardino Barbatelli)
Angel
ca. 1590
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Lodovico Buti
Abraham and the Three Angels
ca. 1590-1600
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido)
Annunciatory Angel
ca. 1590
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Tamburlaine [at the bedside of Zenocrate, his Queen]:

Proud furie and intollorable fit,
That dares torment the body of my Love,
And scourge the Scourge of the immortall God:
Now are those Spheares where Cupid usde to sit,
Wounding the world with woonder and with love,
Sadly supplied with pale and ghastly death,
Whose darts do pierce the Center of my soule:
Her sacred beauty hath enchaunted heaven,
And had she liv'd before the siege of Troy,
Hellen, whose beauty somond Greece to armes,
And drew a thousand ships to Tenedos,
Had not bene nam'd in Homers Iliads:
Her name had bene in every line he wrote:
Or had those wanton Poets, for whose byrth
Olde Rome was proud, but gasde a while on her,
Nor Lesbia, nor Corrinna had bene nam'd,
Zenocrate had bene the argument
Of every Epigram and Eligie.

– Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, The Second Part, act II, scene iv (1590)