Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Helpful Angels at the Prado

Luca Giordano
Abraham & the Three Angels
1695-96
Prado

The Angel

I dreamt a Dream!  what can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er beguil'd!

And I wept both night and day,
And he wip'd my tears away,
And I wept both night and day,
And hid from him my heart's delight.

So he took his wings and fled;
Then the morn blush'd rosy red;
I dried my tears & arm'd my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears.

Soon my Angel came again;
I was arm'd, he came in vain,
For the time of youth was fled
And grey hairs were on my head.

– William Blake, Songs of Experience

Giambattista Tiepolo
Abraham & the Three Angels
ca. 1770
Prado

Leonaert Bramer
Abraham & the Three Angels
ca. 1640
Prado

Francisco Bayeu
Abraham & the Three Angels
1771
Prado

Frans Francken the Younger
Abraham & the Three Angels
17th century
Prado

Juan Antonio Escalante
The Prophet Elijah Fed by an Angel
1668
Prado

Cecco de Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri)
Guardian Angel with Saints Ursula and Thomas
ca. 1615
Prado

Alonso Cano
St Paul Freed by an Angel
1657
Prado

Antonio de Pereda
St Peter Freed by an Angel
1643
Prado

Orazio Gentileschi
St Francis Held by an Angel
ca. 1607
Prado

Francisco Ribalta
St Francis visited by an Angel Musician and a Lamb
ca. 1620
Prado

Andrea di Lione
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
before 1670
Prado

Luca Giordano
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
ca. 1694
Prado

Francisco Goya
Tobais and the Angel
ca. 1787
Prado

I am grateful for the beautiful reproductions made available by Museo del Prado.