Anyone know?
A familiar face is more comfortable.
Who stopped?
>>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.
>>1194000
there are many different types of angels, you know that right?
>>1194022
Yes. And this thread is asking why some of them are depicted in art way less than they used to be.
>>1193975
The the people of the Renaissance's obsession with the human form and humanism in general probably had something to do with it.
>>1194042
This mainly. Renaissance artist motto was basically "Fuck accuracy as long as it looks pretty"