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A Tear From a Fallen Angel; A Smile From a Suspended Satyr

A Final Art History article to end the year

J.R. Spiers
5 min readDec 31, 2022

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Detail from “The Fallen Angel” by Alexandre Cabanel, 1847 from Wikimedia Commons

I have been saving this painting for some time now because I was unsure what to do with it.

The tear of a fallen angel

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J.R. Spiers

Author and Illustrator of Fiction for the Young at Heart, Collector of Curious Things, Grateful Gardener With a Flock of Backyard Chickens https://jrspiers.com/