honestly its so unbelievably lame that modern artists have settled on “plain white” for standard angel wing depictions considering the variety of cool and colorful designs that medieval and renaissance artists came up with.
like check out these blue and gold striped wings!! so sick!!
or the golden peacock feathers
or these rainbow ones! the paint is faded but imagine them much brighter and more vibrant originally
same with the paint on this blue and white gradient wing set
or even these sick goth wings on gabriel over here!!
like god not even going into the sticky moral implications of the whiteness/purity connotation theyre just so much lamer and more boring than they could be like come on
yesss so true! it had to be said!
may i add some more fancy angel wings found in random illuminated medieval manuscripts…
literally HOW could we abandon them why would culture take so many steps backwards and for what
to add on some more: there are also some sick ass ones on walls in various forms
(Green, red and blue winged seraphim from the apse fresco of Santa Maria d’Àneu, currently held in the MNAC in Catalonia. Imagine these colors are ten times more saturated, but even in its current state it’s so cool.)
(A similar seraph but also two other angels/archangels with red and blue wings, from Santa Maria de Taüll’s frescoes, also in MNAC)
(These two are pretty well-known but worth reiterating: mosaics of the archangels Michael (left) with black, white and green wings and Gabriel (right) with black, blue and white wings from the Cefalu Cathedral, Sicily)
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