The Cherub of Ezekiel
The Angel and the Wing as the central motif, with the Lion in a secondary part. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Key · 2 motifs
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A nude winged figure stands inside a flame-shaped aureole, a sword hilt-up at the waist, the heads of a bull and a lion behind his own, the wings rising above; the Angel and the Wing as the central motif, the Lion by eye. By eye
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By eye The central motif, the wings that fill the plate, rising and falling around the figure.
Hall, 1928 “The prophet beheld four strange creatures, each having four heads, four wings, and brazen hoofs like those of a calf.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the lion's head at the right of the man's own.
Symbolica The four heads are an eagle, a bull, a man and a lion, the tetramorph; Hall counts four heads in his description of Ezekiel's creatures and does not name them. Observed on the plate, and left unread rather than guessed.
Also carrying the Angel and the Wing
15 works, 6 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
Two Peasants Hold a Red Robe, Mercury Rests on the Water Below
Melencolia I
Plate 43 from "Los Caprichos": The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)
Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)
Temperance (XIV)
Judgement (XX)
The Virgin with a Dragon at Her Feet
The Hand of the Mysteries
Also carrying the Lion
6 works. The symbol.
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