The Israel Museum presents "Divine Messengers: Angels in Art."
December 20, 2011-December 30, 2012
Location: Nathan Cummings 20th Century Art Building
Artist: Paul Klee, Pieter Lastman, Jacob Jordaens, and Pedro Orrente among others
Curator: Shlomit Steinberg
Media: Paintings, prints, ketubbot
Throughout the centuries, artists have attempted to portray the familiar yet mysterious figure of the angel - those winged, ageless and sexless spiritual beings variously known as cherubs, seraphs, or archangels. This exhibition presents works by the Baroque painters Pieter Lastman, Jacob Jordaens, and Pedro Orrente, and prints by German Renaissance artists depicting scenes from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, alongside paintings from the Cuzco Spanish colonial school, Islamic art, and illuminated ketubbot (Jewish marriage contracts) - all replete with angels. Holding pride of place in the exhibition is Paul Klee's emblematic Angelus Novus.
Image courtesy of the Israel Museum
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 10:00 to 17:00; Tuesday 16:00 to 21:00; Friday 10:00 to 14:00
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