AUREOLA

Aureola

An aureola or aureole is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. In the earliest periods of Christian art it was confined to the figures of the persons of the Christian Godhead, but it was afterwards extended to the Virgin Mary and to several of the saints.

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aureola

Noun

  1. Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.


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