Angels · Skopia

Art

7

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Gianlorenzo Bernini

1652★ 9.4

The Trinity

1425★ 8.9

Melencolia I

1514★ 8.6

Annunciation to the Shepherds

1338★ 6.1

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Hieronymus Bosch

1500★ 5.4

Maddona with Child and Six Angels

1305★ 5.2

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Quotes

3

Religious literature

Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point?

William Chillingworth

1637

★ 6.9

Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

1991

★ 3.4

Scripture · Religious literature

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28:12

1405 BC

★ 1.2