Cherub - The Old Bond Street Island - Bath, Somerset
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N 51° 22.980 W 002° 21.662
30U E 544465 N 5692611
A marble putto or cherub in a niche at the north end of The Old Bond Street Island, Bath.
Waymark Code: WMWK81
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/14/2017
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Between its bottom end and Upper Borough Walls the width of
Milsom Street gives way to two mrrow streets (Old Bond Street and
Burton Street), divided by an slim ‘island’ of shops. Facing Milsorn Street are the former premises of E P MALLORY & SON, jewellers, now a gift shop entitled ‘Octopus’. In a niche above the shop ?ront is a charming little cherub.
"A cherub is one of the unearthly beings who directly attend to God according to Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles; their original duty having been the protection of the Garden of Eden. Angelic status is not attributed to cherubim in the Old Testament (at least not explicitly); only in later sources such as De Coelesti Hierarchia are they identified as a hierarchical rank of angels.
Different sources give conflicting information as to the physical appearance of cherubim. An early, traditional Jewish notion supposes that cherubim had youthful, human features (although some early midrashic literature conceives of the cherubim as non-corporeal). In the Book of Ezekiel and (at least some) Christian icons, the cherub is depicted as having a number of wing pairs, and four faces: that of a lion (representative of all wild animals), an ox (domestic animals), a human (humanity), and an eagle (birds). Their legs were straight, the soles of their feet like the hooves of a bull, gleaming like polished brass. In Western Christian tradition, cherubim have become associated with the putto and the Greco-Roman deity Cupid/Eros, resulting in the misconception that cherubim are small and plump winged boys.
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