Chapter I: Front Matter

ANGELS IN ART

Art Series

THE MADONNA IN ART
ESTELLE M. HURLL.

CHILD LIFE IN ART
ESTELLE M. HURLL.

ANGELS IN ART
CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT.

LOVE IN ART
MARY KNIGHT POTTER.

L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

196 Summer Street, Boston, Mass.

ANGELS IN ART

BY
CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT

AUTHOR OF
“A HANDBOOK OF LEGENDARY ART,”
“PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ARCHITECTS, AND ENGRAVERS,”
“ARTISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,”
ETC.

Illustrated

LONDON
DAVID NUTT
1899

Colonial Press:
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 11

II. ARCHANGELS--MICHAEL 46

III. THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL 84

IV. THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL 105

V. GUARDIAN ANGELS, ANGEL CHORISTERS, AND ADORING ANGELS--DEMONS
AND EVIL SPIRITS 135

VI. PICTURES OF ANGELS AS AUTHORIZED BY THE SCRIPTURES 158

VII. PICTURES WHICH ILLUSTRATE BOTH SCRIPTURE AND LEGEND 203

VIII. ANGELS IN PICTURES OF THE VIRGIN MARY 223

INDEX 263

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

MURILLO.--Guardian Angel _Frontispiece_

PERUGINO.--A Six-winged Cherub (from the Assumption of the Virgin) 21

FRA ANGELICO.--A Glory of Angels 29

FRA ANGELICO.--An Angel of the Tabernacle 37

FRANCESCO ALBANI.--The Child Jesus with Angels 43

RAPHAEL.--The Archangel Michael casting Satan out of Heaven 53

GUIDO RENI.--The Archangel Michael overpowering Satan 63

H. MÜCKE.--The Translation of St. Catherine of Alexandria 71

FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.--The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin Mary 79

FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.--A Divided Annunciation 89

ALESSANDRO ALLORI.--The Annunciation 95

FRA ANGELICO.--The Annunciation 101

ANDREA DEL SARTO.--The Archangel Raphael conducting the young Tobias 111

GIOVANNI BILIVERTI.--The Archangel Raphael refusing the Gifts of Tobias 117

SANDRO BOTTICELLI.--The Archangel Raphael (from a picture of Tobias and the three Archangels) 123

FRA ANGELICO.--Angel Choristers 137

KAULBACH.--The Angel of Peace 141

PERUGINO.--Musical Angels 147

FRANCESCO GRANACCI.--Angels in Adoration 153

IL SODOMA.--The Sacrifice of Abraham 161

MELOZZO DA FORLI.--An Angel 173

ARY SCHEFFER.--The Temptation of Christ 181

SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.--Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre 187

FRA ANGELICO.--An Angel conducting a Soul to Heaven 195

FRA BARTOLOMMEO.--An Angel playing the Violin 201

LORENZO DI CREDI.--An Angel in Adoration 205

FRENCH.--Death staying the Hand of the Sculptor 211

ROSSETTI.--The Annunciation 221

FRANCESCO GRANACCI.--The Virgin and Angels 225

FRANCESCO FRANCIA.--A Pietà 233

MURILLO.--The Immaculate Conception 237

SANDRO BOTTICELLI.--Madonna and Angels 243

VAN DYCK.--The Repose in Egypt 251

TITIAN.--The Assumption of the Virgin 255

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