# Got a favorite angel (picture/painting)?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-favorite-angel-picture-painting/475560>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 3, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-favorite-angel-picture-painting/475560 "2008-12-03T20:38:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-favorite-angel-picture-painting/475560/21 "2008-12-04T18:44:05Z")

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Thayer’s [_Angel_](http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/images/angel_thayer.lg.jpg) has always beguiled me (in an Anima sense more than any other 🆒). I’ve been seeing this image for about 10 years or so now and when I found out when it was painted I was completely shocked because she (subject/model) does not channel _any_ of the 19th century beauty tropes, at all, and looks very contemporary.

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