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Title
Angel Of The Storm
Artist
Lianne Schneider
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art
Description
A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity. The concept of tutelary angels and their hierarchy was extensively developed in Christianity in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many refinements since the 400s. Belief in both the East and the West is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to,[1] and present prayer to God on that person's behalf.
The belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity; Pagans, like Menander and Plutarch, and Neo-Platonists, like Plotinus, held it. It was also the belief of the Babylonians and Assyrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an Assyrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: "He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed." [2]
According to Leo Trepp, in late Judaism the belief developed that "....[t]he people have a heavenly representative, a guardian angel. Every human being has a guardian angel. Previously the term `Malakh', angel, simply meant messenger of God."[3] The belief that angels can be guides and intercessors for men can be found in Job 33:23-6, and in the Daniel 10:13 angels seem to be assigned to certain countries. In this latter case the "prince of the Persian kingdom" contends with Gabriel. The same verse mentions "Michael, one of the chief princes". In the New Testament Book of Jude Michael is described as an archangel. Scripture says that God will "set a guard of holy angels over all the righteous" (1 En 100:5) to guard them during the end of time. In Matthew 18:10, Jesus says of children: "See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven" (New International Version). This is often understood to mean that children are protected by guardian angels, and appears to be corroborated by Hebrews 1:14 when speaking of angels, 'Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?'
In Acts 12:12-15 there is another allusion to the belief that a specific angel is assigned to protect each individual. After Peter had been escorted out of prison by an angel, he went to the home of 'Mary the mother of John, also called Mark'. The servant girl, Rhoda, recognized his voice and ran back to tell the group that Peter was there. However the group replied, "It must be his angel"' (12:15). With this scriptural sanction, Peter's angel was the most commonly depicted guardian angel in art, and was normally shown in images of the subject, most famously Raphael's fresco of the Deliverance of Saint Peter in the Vatican.
Unlike patron saints, like St. Andrew the Fisherman or St. Brendan the Navigator or St. Erasmus (whose sign is something sailors called St. Elmo's Fire), there is no particular angel named as the guardian of sailors. The following is the Catholic prayer to one's guardian angel, usually taught to children as part of their bedtime prayers.
Angel of God, my guardian dear
to whom God's love commits me here.
Ever this day/night be at my side
to light, to guard, to rule and guide.
Amen.
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Hand painted digitally using a composite of various images in the public domain. The resultant work therefore is a derivative in which various filters and textures are applied after the painting has been created.
Image Copyright - Lianne Schneider 2013
http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com All rights reserved.
All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international copyright laws.
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Fort Dodge, IA - United States
Awesome Lianne! Wow!
Lianne Schneider replied:
To all of you who have come by while I have been away in hospital and left such warm, encouraging comments, I can't thank you enough for bolstering my spirits and making me feel that I've not been forgotten. I'll get to each of you as soon as I can!
Kelowna, BC - Canada
Dear Lianne may you Guardian Angel ,watch over you till you can manage on your own ,,God Bless
Bendigo, Vi - Australia
beautifully dramatic, you'd have to be brave to go to sea in those days, with out a guardian angel you wouldn't want to leave home v
Kelowna, BC - Canada
Spectacular image ,very creative Lianne ..& I am sure we all have a gaurdian Angel L/F
Boulder, Wy - United States
this is so interesting, has so much going on and yet is simple. love your descriptions and work. L/F
Peterborough, On - Canada
What a beautiful and powerful image!!! Love this so much and the story that goes along with it! Thanks Lianne! v&f
Strykersville, NY - United States
JRR - so lovely of you to feature this image in DIGITAL TOUCH - that means a great deal to me!
Strykersville, NY - United States
I'm so very touched and honored by each lovely comment and note of encouragement. Each one is a gift to me - one I hope to return in kind by visiting your work if I haven't already done so. My deepest and most heartfelt thanks to all of you.
Strykersville, NY - United States
Edgar - thank you so much for featuring this work in ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL. I'm truly thrilled and so honored.
Sun Lakes, AZ - United States
Lianne, This is so touching and spiritual. You have truly been blessed with an amazing gift, my friend. Well done! v/f
Strykersville, NY - United States
Jon it's a special honor to be featured in THE SHOW OFF SPACE - even off topic! I'm really so very pleased. Thank you so much.
Strykersville, NY - United States
My deepest and most sincere thanks Sandra for featuring this image in MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA. I'm just very honored and thrilled to pieces.
Strykersville, NY - United States
Many thanks Saad for choosing to feature this image in I LOVE SEASCAPES - 1 A DAY. I'm particularly honored and proud.
Strykersville, NY - United States
Again - thank you all so very much for your lovely and supportive comments. I've tried to get by to visit each of you in turn to support you as well - if I haven't gotten there yet, I will soon!
London, mi - United Kingdom
a stunning reminder of the excellence of all your art Lianne so love the angel and the delicate movement so enchanting fv
Casa Grande, AZ - United States
God has given you a wonderful eye, Congrats on the Painting and Features
Strykersville, NY - United States
To everyone who has come by and left a comment or a vote, my heartfelt thanks. I hope that I have been able to return your gracious gifts with a visit to your work - if you haven't seen me there yet, you will soon.
Strykersville, NY - United States
Andrick, Many thanks for featuring this in SEASCAPE OR MARINE LIFE. I'm overjoyed and really very honored.
Strykersville, NY - United States
Bob and Nadine - I really just can't thank you enough for your kind words and for featuring this in ALL FINE ART AMERICA ARTWORK. I'm just tremendously honored and pleased.
Cottonwood, AZ - United States
This is one of my ... Top Five FAVORITES ... of all images seen in groups today.
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