Wings

Roman Empire
Ornamental Wall Fragment with Winged Figure
1st century AD
fresco
Princeton University Art Museum

Taddeo di Bartolo
Resurrection of the Virgin
ca. 1410
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Altobello Melone
Tobias and the Angel
ca. 1520-25
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Bonifazio de' Pitati (Bonifazio Veronese)
Angel of the Annunciation
ca. 1543-44
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Riccardo Taurini
Guardian Angel
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
private collection

Juan de Valdés Leal
St Peter freed from Prison by an Angel
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Catedral de Sevilla

Eustache Le Sueur
Figure of Fame
ca. 1653-55
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Lodewijk de Vadder
Tobias and the Angel
before 1655
oil on canvas
private collection

Pieter Thys
Daedalus fixing wings onto shoulders of Icarus
before 1677
oil on canvas
private collection

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
Guardian Angel
before 1724
marble-
Basilica di San Paolo Maggiore, Naples

Hamlet Winstanley after Guido Reni
Expulsion from Paradise
1728
etching
Wellcome Collection, London

Antonio Gai
Angel as Candlestick
1749
gilt bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Abbott Handerson Thayer
An Angel
1893
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Francis Augustus Lathrop
Study of Sculpted Wing
ca. 1895
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

George Wilson
Study of Shoes and Wing
ca. 1875
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Graham Sutherland
Bird
1954
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Barbara Hepworth
Maquette for Winged Figure
1957
painted brass and wire on concrete base
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

from Eros

    Surely thy body is thy mind,

For in thy face is nought to find,

Only thy soft unchristened smile

That shadows neither love nor guile

But shameless will and power immense

In secret sensuous innocence. 

– Robert Bridges (1885)