About This Project
This website was created in December of 2020 by a student at Smith College. This project was the culmination of a semester-long independent study on angelic art and iconography with Professor Vera Shevzov of the Smith College Religion department. The author began by researching angelic depictions in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and well as in apocryphal sources, and spend the rest of the semester studying artwork from pre-Christian to contemporary traditions.
The footer artwork for this website is a detail from the piece "Con with the Archangel Michael," c. 1300–1350, located in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens. The header artwork for this page is a detail from the piece "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1562, located in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. All the artwork on the homepage was done by the author for this website.
If you're interested in reading further, check out Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium by Glenn Peers and Angels and Demons in Art by Rosa Giorgi.
The footer artwork for this website is a detail from the piece "Con with the Archangel Michael," c. 1300–1350, located in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens. The header artwork for this page is a detail from the piece "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1562, located in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. All the artwork on the homepage was done by the author for this website.
If you're interested in reading further, check out Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium by Glenn Peers and Angels and Demons in Art by Rosa Giorgi.