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Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland

Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’

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We are all familiar with cherubs – small, winged children that have a status in Western art history as angels.

But did you know this image you hold in your head of a cherub is completely unlike the cherubs of the biblical and medieval traditions?

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