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Detail of #embroidery by Margaret Morgan, Pontypool #Wales, 1839 showing the Holy family making the flight into Egypt, watched over by an #Owl #OwlishMondays #wingedwonders #art #sewing #craft #naiveart #folkart #owls
A brightly coloured bird at the start of The Book of Kings, in an Italian Hebrew text of The Former & Latter Prophets (14c) #WingedWonders #AnimalsInChurches
Details of the winged Tetramorph on the reverse of a #Romanesque 11th C Crucifix.
It was donated by the King & Queen of León (Ferdinand & Sancha) to the Royal Collegiate of San Isidoro, #León
Now in @MANArqueologico
#WingedWonders
The white marble statue of St John the Evangelist, with his eagle.
The sculpture is by Gueniot (1926) in the #ArtNouveau Église Saint-Jean de Montmatre.
The face is quite effeminate & the eagle is very powerful.
#WingedWonders
A variety of birds for #AnimalsInChurchesHour #WingedWonders #stainedglass Some local birds from Appledore; a swallow from Wirksworth; a 14th century bird from Salehurst and a detail from one of the Chagall windows at Tudeley