Ange porteur de blason

The angel is dressed in blue, kneeling and wearing a shield of Gules with a Latin cross couped Or. The gesture of presenting the coat of arms by the angel, one knee on the ground, the other bent, was quite common from the 14th to the 16th centuries. His head is cocked, and he wears a long blue garment with a round collar and buttoned lapel. The coat of arms obscures most of his body. The position is transcribed in an almost flat volume, with the bent limbs represented in their entirety, but foreshortened. In this way, the position is rendered in space, perfectly adapted to its frame. Indeed, while the edges of the keystone are indistinguishable, the general outline of the angel does not break away from a circular shape, which he recreates on his own. The garment is depicted simply, with beads representing the folds, separated in places by deep incisions. These folds mark the body's joints, with fan-shaped arrangements at the elbows and knees. The fingers of the hands and feet are represented by simple incisions that roughly individualize them.