Anyhow, those who know me well know that I love to visit museums and art galleries. Usually I like to buy a couple of postcards as a memento... they're so reasonably priced and every now and then I take a look through my collection... or part of it!
At this Advent tide, I've been looking at angels, also inspired by the Twitter trend #angeltrail. I also enjoyed the Text Santa Downton Abbey spoof. In that, one of my heroes Joanna Lumley (so gorgeous) appears all dressed in white, with white wings, as an angel.
Going through my cards this morning I found this one 'A Choir of Angels' Simon Marmion (active 1449, died 1489) from the National Gallery in London:
So full of colour, aren't they? And as I recall, most angels up till the Renaissance at least, wore colourful robes and sported colourful wings. Probably some art buff (maybe my son-in-law Richard Ian Heys.. I'll have to ask him) would be able to tell me at what point in our history angels came to be white, but I have to wonder 'why'. Any thoughts?
