Celestials

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Head of an Angel
ca. 1610
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Andrea del Verrocchio
Head of Angel
ca. 1465-70
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Two Angels with Globe in Clouds
before 1680
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Dominicus Custos after Franz Aspruck
Archangel Michael
before 1612
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Anonymous German Printmaker
Archangel Gabriel
ca. 1650-70
hand-colored engraving
(book illustration)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Cherubino Alberti after Pellegrino Tibaldi
Archangel Raphael leading Tobias
1575
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

attributed to Giovanni di Francesco
Three Archangels with Tobias
ca. 1440
tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pietro Perugino
Angel
ca. 1500-1510
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Samuel van Hoogstraten
Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Simon Vouet
Angel with the Nails of the Passion
ca. 1615-25
oil on canvas
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Friedrich Sustris
St Michael Archangel
(design for silver statuette)
ca. 1595
drawing, with added watercolor
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Edgar Degas after Luca Signorelli
Angel
1858
drawing
(copied from painting in Italy)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Georg Lemberger
St John receiving Book from Angel on Pillars
1524
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to the "Luther" Bible)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giandomenico Tiepolo
God the Father supported by Cloud of Angels
ca. 1785
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pietro Antonio Novelli
St Michael Archangel subduing Satan,
with St Benedict and St Scholastica
before 1804
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Philippe de Champaigne
Dream of the Prophet Elijah
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Musée de Tessé, Le Mans

I am the stone that rests on Cretho and makes known his name, but Cretho is ashes underground, he who once vied with Gyges in wealth, who was lord of many herds and flocks, who was – why need I say more? – he was blessed by all. Alas, what a little share of his vast lands is his!

Hence I thrice unfortunate was slain by an armed robber, and here I lie bewept by none. 

Thy valour, Proarchus, slew thee in the fight, and thou hast put in black mourning by thy death the house of thy father Phidias. But the stone above thee sings this good message, that thou didst fall fighting for thy dear fatherland.

I weep for Timosthenes, the son of Molossus, slain in battle, dying a stranger on the strange Attic soil.

His dear city set up this inscription by the beautiful waters of Ascania to the strong man Achaeus. Nicaea wept for him, and his father Diomedes erected to him this tall and glittering stone monument, lamenting; for it had been meeter for his son to pay him these honours when he died himself.

Ye columns and my Sirens, and thou, mournful pitcher that holdest the little ash of death, bid them who pass by my tomb hail, be they citizens or from another town; and tell them this, too, that I was buried here a bride, and that my father called me Baucis, and that my country was Tenos, that they may know. Say, likewise, that my friend and companion Erinna engraved these lines on my tomb.  

– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)