The Three Archangels and the guardian angels in art
This is a late nineteenth-century art-historical survey of angels, published by Eliza Allen Starr in Chicago in 1899 for a general Catholic readership interested in religious iconography. Its plates reproduce Renaissance paintings and reliefs, and a designer might take from them the crowded, symmetrical compositions of Annunciation scenes, with robed figures, halos, and winged angels arranged under arches and in tiered heavens.
