In this second article by Edward Riojas on church artwork, he discusses imagery surrounding the angelic hosts and why, for some reason, they often appear in gossamer gowns instead of frightening appearances of four-faced, six-winged killing machines. Read the article at witness.lcms.org.
Fig. 4: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 3.0. Access here.
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