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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

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