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| Keywords: William de Brailes - The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Apocryphal) - Walters W10624R - Full Page.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator William de Brailes This image from Walters manuscript w 106 depicts the fall of the rebel angels In the center of heaven God cross-nimbed with his hands in his lap sits on a throne within a mandorla Ranks of angels surround him in circular compartments looking this way and that The lowest rank of angels to the left and right of God is empty The Rebel Angels are seen in the compartment below falling headlong out of heaven and into a brown hellmouth The jaws of the beast-headed hellmouth with their crenellated teeth engulf the fallen angels As they fall the angels become demons Their flesh turns from white to dark brown and their human faces become bestial with long ears great bulging eyes and large grimacing jaws Their orange wings have disappeared to be replaced in one case by a blazing orange loincloth Evil has been established ca 1250 Medieval ink pigment parchment cm 13 2 9 5 accession number W 106 24R 22031 Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore June 6 1903 by purchase see The Diaries of George Lucas Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 To Hell and Back Medieval Images of the Afterworld The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 place of origin Oxford England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters MS W106 - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Fallen angels Loincloths in art Jaws in art | ||||
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