mandorla
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mandorla
from Italian, literally: almond, from Late Latin amandula; see almond
Example Sentences
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She “bursts forth from the Virgin’s traditional flaming mandorla, throws off her star-spangled cloak and dashes straight toward us, beaming, into the future,” New York Times art critic Holland Cotter wrote in 1999.
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021
Another, composed of gleaming copper radiates a tawny mandorla.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020
Oval layers of crimson cloth echo the almond shape of a radiant mandorla within which the Trinity hovers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2016
The painted discs that had become his signature function variously as wheels, radial engines, sunbursts and air force roundels; a red propeller flaps, and a biplane hangs like an angel in a mandorla of color.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Eternal Father, within a circular mandorla, is above, and below, flying towards the Madonna, is the white dove of the Holy Spirit.
From Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by Williamson, George C.
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