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Divine Messengers: Angels in Art

Exhibition: 20 December 2011 - 8 December 2012

Along the centuries, artists have attempted to portray the familiar yet mysterious figure of the angel – those winged, ageless and sexless spiritual beings variously known as cherubs, seraphs, or archangels. This exhibition presents works by the Baroque painters Pieter Lastman, Jacob Jordaens, and Pedro Orrente, and Gustave Dore, depicting scenes from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, alongside paintings from the Cuzco Spanish colonialschool, Islamic art, and illuminated ketubbot (Jewish marriage contracts) – all replete with angels.