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...PAINTER GABRIEL by Donald Newlove. 313 pages. McCall...
...Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A teeming chronicle of one family that may or may not represent all of South America...
Recurring Gabriel. As the theological intricacies of Christianity spread, the character and role of angels became more complex and diversified. But if theology particularized, art tended to generalize; a painter could deal with only a limited number of symbols and attributes. More important, his audience-a heterogeneous one, not made up of theologians -could not be expected to carry all the minute subdivisions of angelhood in its head. Consequently only a few kinds of angels were identifiable, and these were linked to basic Scriptural events. The only spirits who stood out, time and again, as individuals were three archangels: Michael...
...most often painted was Gabriel, the angel of the Annunciation, sent by God to disclose to Mary that she would give birth to Christ. In the history of a civilization that abounded in images of the Madonna, Gabriel recurred insistently, whether as the impassive, rhythmically contorted enamel figure on the 11th century cover of the Ariberto breviary in Milan or the rainbow-winged presence, solid as a Doric column, who confronts a submissive Mary in Fra Angelico's Annunciation...
...Gabriel's functions was to preside over Paradise, and this he shared with Michael. The resonant titles of the Archangel Michael read like a blast on the horn of resurrection: chief of the order of virtues, chief of archangels, prince of the presence, angel of repentance, righteousness, mercy, sanctification . . . and, by decree of Pope Pius XII in 1950, the patron angel of policemen. In painting, his main roles were two: driving the rebel angels down to Hell (Michael replaced the fallen Lucifer as chief angel of Heaven) and weighing the souls of the dead, as in Memling...