medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> So an angel could perhaps have distributed the Eucharist, but could not have confected it. Being
> vested with stola and also sometimes in tunic wouldbe appropriate for that role as well as
> perhaps the messenger/preacher/proclaimer/minister role.Does anyoneknow if there are
> contrary views? Or representations of angels vested in chasuble?
Undoubtedly the most useful study of this is M.B. McNamee, "The Origin of the
Vested Angel as a Eucharistic Symbol," Art Bulletin, vol. 54 (1972), pp. 263-78
(available through many university libraries in an on-line version through JSTOR),
who, based on the study of 100s of late medieval and early Renaissance paintings,
concluded that vested angels "are always dressed in the vestments of deacons and
subdeacons of the mass". He found only one example of an angel apparently
dressed in a chasuble, "Mary with the Divine Infant and Angels" by the Master of the
Aachen Altar (1480-1520), now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich "by a minor artist
who was probably adopting a tradition whose full significance he did not
understand".
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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