Last Updated: August 23, 2026
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The paintings catalogued here are mostly of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and are in the public domain as paintings. What can still carry a claim is the photograph: several European institutions assert a right in faithful reproductions of works they hold, while courts in the United States have declined to recognise one. The position differs by country and this site does not resolve it on your behalf.
This subject attracts a specific confusion that is worth stating outright. The two cherubs at the foot of Raphael's Sistine Madonna are among the most reproduced motifs in commercial print, and their ubiquity leads people to assume that every image of them is free to take. It is not. The painting is out of copyright; a particular photograph of it may not be, and a modern illustration, crop, recolour or composite built from it is a new work with its own copyright belonging to whoever made it.
Before reusing an image commercially, check the terms published by the institution named in the entry, and do not assume that a design you have seen elsewhere is in the public domain merely because the painting behind it is. Rights enquiries and takedown requests go to editorial@angelspaintings.com.
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Assigning a figure to a rank, or a name to an archangel, is an editorial reading of the picture. Museum records mostly do not make these distinctions, which means the reading is this site's own and can be wrong. Where a picture will not settle it, the entry says so.
Nothing here is a theological statement, and nothing here should be relied on to authenticate a painting, establish provenance or support a valuation or an insurance claim. It is a finding aid.
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