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There's also McNamee's book, 'Vested Angels' (Leuven: Peeters, 1998).
You may also find useful stuff in Barbara G. Lane's 'The Altar and the
Altarpiece' (New York: Harper and Row, 1984).
Best,
Andrew Kirkman
Jim Bugslag wrote:
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>>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?
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>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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