GALLERY

Italian Gothic adorning angel, circa 1395–1396, lunense marble from Carrara, Italy, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Angel of the Revelation by William Blake, between circa 1803 and circa 1805

Schutzengel (Guardian Angel) by Bernhard Plockhorst depicts a guardian angel watching over two children

Southern German Baroque angel, by Ignaz Günther, circa 1760–1770, lindenwood with traces of gesso, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Italian Gothic angel of the annunciation, circa 1430–1440, Istrian limestone, gesso and gilt, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kristus i Getsemane (1873), an angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Heinrich Bloch

Corinthian capital with an angel who wolds a festoon with his wings, in Stiftskirche Mariae Himmelfahrt, Schlägl

The Archangel Michael wears a Roman military cloak and cuirass in this 17th-century depiction by Guido Reni