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Why did we stop depicting angels as terrifying tetramorphs?
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Anyone know?
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A familiar face is more comfortable.
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Who stopped?
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>>1193995
Europeans, for the most part.
It's a trend in art that has steadily decreased. Save for shit like Neon Genesis Evangelion, modern depiction of angels is almost exclusively in the "robed androgyn" school of thought.
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>>1194000
there are many different types of angels, you know that right?
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>>1194022
Yes. And this thread is asking why some of them are depicted in art way less than they used to be.
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>>1193975
The the people of the Renaissance's obsession with the human form and humanism in general probably had something to do with it.
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>>1194042
This mainly. Renaissance artist motto was basically "Fuck accuracy as long as it looks pretty"
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