mandorla

In many Eastern icons a blue and white light mandorla may be used.

Located underneath the mandorla is a black band with white writing.

She is carried within a brilliant mandorla by three angels.

The other two evangelists fit into the triangular space on either side of the mandorla.

Valuable inscriptions are carved on the backs of the mandorla.

The mandorla, or halo around the entire body, of flames are painted and look very intricate.

This image has an inscription on the back of the mandorla that scholars have interpreted to mean 539.

Sometimes a star is superimposed on the mandorla.

She has the child to her left and everything is framed by a mandorla supported by two angels.

These mandorla will often be painted in several concentric patterns of color which grow darker as they come close to the center.

The shape is also called mandorla ("almond" in Italian).

From this time also come the Gothic paintings and a mandorla that was revealed during renovation work on the tower.

Christ is depicted within a roundel, or mandorla.

The figure of Christ goes beyond the frame of the mandorla and his feet are resting on a hemisphere.

In the upper part of the painting, the Virgin is shown again, young and attractive, within an mandorla supported by angels.

It is embroidered with a mandorla.

She is contained within a nebulous mandorla, and at her feet are traces of what seems to be a horned moon.

Most surviving images are those that were once attached as attendants to a Buddha in a single mandorla triad.

He leaned back in his ample chair, the back of which rose up behind him, framing him like a mandorla.

The mandorla is placed on a background of three horizontal parallel bands in the colours blue, ocher and black.

The mandorla thus represents the "uncreated Light" which in the transfiguration icons shines on the three disciples.

These linear incisions also radiate upward and outward across the mandorla, unleashing rivulets.

It depicts Christ in a mandorla surrounded by angels, above the kneeling saints of Bohemia.

In this image he is enclosed within a rectangular frame by a mandorla supported at the corners by four flying angels.

The zecchino had on the reverse Christ within an oval (mandorla), which also contained nine stars.