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Angels / Erika Langmuir.
LIBRA N8090 .L36 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langmuir, Erika.
- Series:
- Pocket guides (National Gallery (Great Britain))
- Pocket guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Gallery (Great Britain).
- Angels in art--Guidebooks.
- Angels in art.
- Painting, European--Themes, motives--Guidebooks.
- Painting, European.
- National Gallery (Great Britain)--Guidebooks.
- Painting, European--Themes, motives.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : National Gallery Publications ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This original Pocket Guide examines the presence and surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art. Erika Langmuir points out that angels need not be winged; they can wear antique dress, contemporary church vestments, secular fashions, armor, or nothing at all; their gender and age are uncertain; and they are not always good. Langmuir explores these intriguing characteristics of angels by looking at some of the most engaging religious paintings in the Western tradition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 80).
- ISBN:
- 185709249X
- 0300079230
- OCLC:
- 40980399
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