Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’
- Written by Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
Raphael, Sistine Madonna (detail), between c. 1512 and c. 1513.Wikimedia CommonsWe are all familiar with cherubs – small, winged children that have a status in Western art history as angels.
But did you know this image you hold in your head of a cherub is completely unlike the cherubs of the biblical and medieval traditions?
Here’s what...
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