Painting

City of Angels: Click Here If You Need One Or Two

Magda Michalska 23 December 2016 min Read

Can you hear the rustle of draperies and the flutter of wings? It’s the angels, who have popped in to DailyArtDaily to say hi to all lovers of angelic music, fluffy wings and the movie with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage (me included!). Jokes apart, they’re here for everyone to sooth, console and support because, in the end, who doesn’t need an angel in their lives? Let them embrace you with their delicate arms.

Vincent van Gogh, Head Of An Angel, After Rembrandt, 1889, private collection
Vincent van Gogh, Head Of An Angel, After Rembrandt, 1889, private collection

 

Filippo Lippi, Madonna And Child With Two Angels, 1465, Uffizi
Filippo Lippi, Madonna And Child With Two Angels, 1465, Uffizi

 

Giovanni Bellini, Dead Christ Supported By Angels,1474, Museo della città di Rimini, Rimini, Italy
Giovanni Bellini, Dead Christ Supported By Angels,1474, Museo della città di Rimini, Rimini

 

Sandro Botticelli, Madonna And Child With An Angel, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway Court), Boston, MA, US
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna And Child With An Angel, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway Court), Boston

 

Marc Chagall, A Little Angel, 1957, private collection
Marc Chagall, A Little Angel, 1957, private collection

 

Carlo Crivelli, Archangel Michael, 1477
Carlo Crivelli, Archangel Michael, 1477, The National Gallery, London

 

Musical Angels, Edward Burne-Jones
Musical Angel, Edward Burne-Jones, date and location unknown

 

Caravaggio, Saint Matthew And The Angel, 1602, destroyed
Caravaggio, Saint Matthew And The Angel, 1602, destroyed

Recommended

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1914-1916, Private Collection Painting

The Most Expensive Klimt in the World: $236M Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer

The gavel falls, and the Sotheby’s auction room in New York explodes into applause. Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has just shaken...

Javier Abel Miguel 11 June 2026

Painting

Goya’s Visions of Fear: Witches and Saturn

Three figures hover in the air, their bodies angled downward as they descend upon a limp man below. His arms stretch outward, his body slack, as if...

Frank Schildiner 28 May 2026

Flower Symbolism in Art. Adriaen van Utrecht, Still Life with Bouquet and Skull, c. 1642. Private collection. Via Wikimedia Commons. Painting

The Flora of Folklore: Hidden Flower Symbolism in Art’s Greatest Paintings

Every Old Master canvas speaks in two registers at once: one for the eye, one for those who know how to read the flowers. Artists used flower...

Errika Gerakiti 18 May 2026

Face to face Painting

Georges Papazoff: The Surrealist Who Refused to Behave

Too wild for the canon, too slippery for nationalism, and too early to be officially celebrated: that’s Georges Papazoff—a 20th-century Bulgarian...

Katie Mikova 2 April 2026