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Banned by the Bible, reinvented in the Renaissance: a history of angels in art - Telegraph.co.uk

The Bible has no time for what it calls “graven images” of “anything in heaven”, even including them among the “don’ts” of the Ten Commandments. Since Christianity has always given angels’ home address as heaven, that scriptural injunction should, in theory, have ruled out any officially sanctioned depictions of them. It is one rule, though, that the Western Church (Eastern Orthodoxy takes it more seriously) has consistently broken, giving rise to the angels, first created for churches, convents, monasteries and graveyards, who today feature on our Christmas cards, people our nativity plays and take flight in our imaginations.

Among the oldest images of angels are the early fifth-century mosaics...



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