The figures have been ornamented with painting and gilding, now partially worn off, and the style is of the early part of the fifteenth century. It appeared to me to have formed one of the compartments of an altar-piece.
[25] As in the picture in our National Gallery, No. 10.
[26] Vatican: Raphael’s fresco.
[27] v. Purg. c. viii.; Par. c. xxxi.; Purg. c. xxiv.
[28] The Cherubim in the upper lights of the painted windows at St. Michael’s, Coventry, and at Cirencester, are represented each standing on a white wheel with eight spokes. They have six wings, of peacocks’ feathers, of a rich yellow colour. A white cross surmounts the forehead, and both arms and legs are covered with short plumage. The extremities are human and bare. At Cirencester the Cherubim hold a book; at Coventry a scroll.
[29] In the sacristy of the Vatican.
[30] In the Louvre.
[31] In the Cathedral at Orvieto.
[32] In the Frari at Venice.
[33] Gen. xviii., xlviii. 16.