Spiritual Beings

Frans Floris 1516-1570
The Fall of the Rebellious Angels
1554
Oil on panel, 308 x 220 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 -1682 )

Abraham and the Three Angels (1670 - 1674 )

Oil on canvas

236.2 x 261.5 cm

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804)

The Sacrifice of Isaac mid 1750s

Oil on canvas

15 3/8 x 21 in. (39.1 x 53.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1798- 1863)

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel 1861

Fresco

La Chapelle des Anges, L'église Saint-Sulpice, Paris

Gustave Moreau 1826- 1898
The Angels of Sodom circa 1890
Oil on canvas
Gustave-Moreau Museum, Paris

Jean Adrien Guignet 1816-1854
Tobias and the Angel 1846
Oil on wood 49.9cm x 40.4cm
Musée Rolin, Autun

Bravo Cecci 1607-1661

Agar et l'Ange/ Hagar and the Angel 1650

Oil on canvas 58cm x 72cm

Musée des beaux-arts, Dijon

Domênikos Theotokópoulos known as El Greco 1541-1614
The Annunciation 1570-1575
Paint on board, 49 x 37 cm (19 1/4 x 14 5/8")
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Ascribed to Carlo Maratti 1625 – 1713
Angel appearing to Saint Joseph seated on the ground
Drawing: Red chalk on paper 386 millimetres x 317 millimetres
The British Museum, London

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Stained glass panel

England

About 1340

Clear, coloured and flashed glass, with paint and silver stain

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Baccio Bandinelli, 1488-1560

Dead Christ with Angel

Marble

Crypt, Santa Croce, Florence

Filippo Vitale 1585-1650

Saint Pierre délivré de prison par un ange/ St Peter liberated by an angel

Oil on canvas 129cm x 154cm

Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes

Hugo Simberg 1873-1917

The Wounded Angel 1903

Oil on canvas 127,00 cm x 154,00 cm

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

The word angel in English derives from the Koine Greek angellos ('messenger') used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew mal'akh (yehowah) "messenger (of Y-----h)".

The prophet Daniel is the first Biblical figure to refer to individual angels by name

St Augustine said:

“'Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit', from what they do, 'angel.'” (St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103,1,15: PL 37,1348)

St Thomas Aquinas said:

"The angels work together for the benefit of us all" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 114, 3, ad 3).