Angel playing the organ

This is a detail from the painting The Virgin of the Rose Garden by Stefan Lochner, c. 1430.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. –Thomas Carlyle

Angels assistingMary's journey to Heaven

This image from a Book of Hours shows Mary being taken into Heaven. What interests me especially is the vivid colors of the angels' wings, which might evoke rainbows and the hope associated with them.

Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. –Victor Hugo

Raphael and Tobias

This painting by a follower of Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) depicts Tobias being led on a treacherous journey, guided by the Archangel Raphael.

The power of Love in all ages creates angels. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fra Angelico: Music-making angel

Detail from the Linaioli Tabernacle, now at Museo di San Marco, Florence. This richly detailed tabernacle shows a number of music-making angels. It is tempera on panel.

Rembrandt:Christ Consoled by the Angel

Christ Consoled by the Angel on the Mount of Olives - This is a detail of a lovely study for an etching, which was done c. 1655-1657. Etchings are typically mirror images of drawings; this study is unusual in that figures from the study are not reversed in the print.