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Hi Everyone,
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question on the depiction of an angel
on Margaret of York's tomb. The Flemish / Northern French artistic
connections make perfect sense!
All the best,
Nancy
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>> Rather than having the sort of "golden glow around the head" halo I'm
>> accustomed to seeing in manuscript illuminations and paintings etc., this
>> angel is wearing something that looks more like a crown--it is placed well
>> down on his head, over his hair, and it has a cross projecting up from the
>> front.
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>Nancy,
>It sounds very much like the crowns being worn by the angels
>painted on the chapel vaults in the House of Jacques Coeur in
>Bourges, dating from c.1450. I don't have my slides here right now,
>but similar crowns may also adorn the angels painted on either side
>of the carved tomb of Bishop Ferry de Beauvoir (d. 1473) in Amiens
>Cathedral.
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
>
>Dr. Jim Bugslag,
>School of Art,
>University of Manitoba,
>Winnipeg, MN,
>Canada, R3T 2N2
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