Angels in Art
Messengers, warriors, mourners, and musicians — angels gave artists license to paint flight and the supernatural within sacred commissions. Two thousand winged figures from icons to etchings.
2,052 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Christ Carrying the Cross, called "The Lord of the Fall"
Unknown, ca. 1770–75
Angels Swinging Censers
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia), 1445
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin, 1891
The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso, ca. 1380
The Annunciation
Hans Memling, 1480–89
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia), ca. 1455–60
The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone, possibly ca. 1320
Adoration of the Shepherds
Francesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma, ca. 1500
The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi, ca. 1337–39
Chasse of Champagnat
The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte), ca. 1590
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Bartolo di Fredi, 1374
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), ca. 1504
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers, 1405–1408/1409
Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble)
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Plaque with Censing Angels
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni, 1627
"Jonah and the Whale", Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Christ in Majesty with Angels and the Angel of God Directs Saint John to Write the Book of Revelation
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
The Marriage of the Virgin
José Sánchez, ca. 1690
Memorial Picture
Folwell School, 1803
Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia), ca. 1455
Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Madonna and Child with Angels
Antonio Rossellino, ca. 1455–60
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Govardhan|Mir 'Ali Haravi, verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50
Processional Cross
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Shrine
Matthias Walbaum|Anton Mozart, 1598–1600
Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl, ca. 1325–50
Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment
Tabernacle of Cherves
Processional Cross
Tapestry with the Annunciation
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck, ca. 1440–41
Paper knife
Castellani|Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, ca. 1863
The Angel at the Tomb of Christ
Benjamin West, ca. 1812
Angels in the Sky
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, before 1762
Angel
Ignaz Günther, ca. 1760–70
Angel
Cherub
Angel
Border
Angel
Angelo Viva, 18th–19th century