Figure of Gabriel (1230) announcing the conception of Christ to the Virgin Mary at Reims Cathedral.
Seraphim Theme Pages
A class of celestial beings in Judaism and Christianity. The name is derived from the Hebrew verb saraph ("to consume with fire").
These statues (1230-1255) are part of the entral portal of the north transept, known as the "Portail de la Vierge" of the western façade of Reims Cathedral. The two figures on the left depict the annunciation with Gabriel looking at the Virgin Mary, the figures on the right represent the visitation of Mary to Saint Elizabeth.
This is a detail of a 14th century "Last Judgement" painting above the chancel arch of John Wycliffe's church at Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. Here an angel, emerging from a cloud, is blowing a trumpet to call the dead to rise frrom their graves.
Detail of Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco (1442) at San Marco monastery in Florence. This image shows the Angel Gabriel within a cloister containing Corinthian columns.
This sculpted Annunciation group forms one of the narrative tableaux on the Renaissance choir screen at Chartres Cathedral, executed by the master sculptor Jehan Soulas in the early 1520s. The scene captures the moment when the archangel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she is to conceive and bear the Son of God.
This large marble and stucco relief sculpture of the Archangel Raphael and Tobias, created around 1698 by Giovanni Baratta, stands in the Church of Santo Spirito, Florence. It is a fine example of late Baroque religious art, notable for its grace, movement, and emotional warmth.
This wood sculpture of St Michael killing the devil, is above a confessional at Orleans Cathedral.
Commissioned during the episcopate of Bishop Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1849–1878), the work was made in Russian oak by the Atelier des frères Goyers of Louvain, and belongs to a program that supplied both transepts with altars, confessionals, and related carvings. Raphael is shown standing on a fish, identifying him with the biblical story of Tobias in the Book of Tobit. The cathedral has been protected as a Monument historique since 1862.
This two-light panel depicts St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata from a Seraphim. In the right light, St Francis stands in his brown habit, hands raised in reverent awe as rays of divine light descend upon him, marking the sacred wounds of Christ.
This panel (1865) is by Hardman and Co., and depicts the angel at the empty tomb. It is part of three panels in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral that illustrate the Three Maries discovering the empty tomb.
Detail image of Seraphim with sheep and pen. Part of a sequence on the theme of the good shepherd (1860s) by Hardman and Co., Gloucester Cathedral cloisters.
This window depicting St Francis of Assisi shows him recieving the marks of stigmata, when Christ appeared to him as a Seraphim on Mount La Verna.
Other panels show him as an itinerant preacher, meeting with Bishop Guido of Assisi, getting permission to start a religious order from pope Innocent III, and Clare of Assisi becoming inspired to start the female Fransican order of Poor Clares.
Detail of stained glass Angels by Henry Holiday for Powel & sons. Part of a window in Salisbury Cathedral on the subject of "Suffer the little children".
Detail of Angels by Henry Holiday for Powel & sons. Part of a stained glass window in Salisbury Cathedral on the subject of "Suffer the little children".
This window depicting The Baptism of Christ was designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and executed by Morris & Co. as a memorial to the Revd W. C. Buckley, vicar of Middleton Stoney and a personal friend of the artist. Installed a few years after Buckley’s death in 1882, it stands as both a work of spiritual reflection and a token of private affection within the circle of the late Pre-Raphaelites.
This window is by the firm of Shrigley and Hunt depicts six orders of angels.
The top register contains images of Seraphims, and Cherubims, the central image is the Archangel Gabriel as a female figure. The lower register has Virtues, Dominions, and Angels
Detail of Hardman stained glass depicting the Annunciation, at Ladbroke, Warwickshire. This panel is a representation of the Archangel Gabriel.
This Salvator Mundi, in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral, is by John Hardman. The central figure has Cherubim peeking out from behind him. Two saints are on either side whilst Seraphim play musical instruments above.
This angel is in the clerestory of the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral.
This stained glass is Christopher Whall who designed and made the glazing for the side windows of the chapel between 1899 and 1909.
This singing angel is in the clerestory of the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral.
This stained glass is Christopher Whall who designed and made the glazing for the side windows of the chapel between 1899 and 1909.