Perm wooden sculpture

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Various figures of archangels, angels and seraphim, as in the ancient Russian icon painting and sculpture in the Permian were favorite images. They are primarily found in several groups of sculptures to accompany any main statue - the Crucifixion, the Lord of hosts, etc.

  XVIII-XIX century.
Angels, most often depicted as young men or boys, although according to Christian doctrine, the nature of these spiritual beings until the end of earthly things is incomprehensible to human reason, and despite the fact that he and attributed human characteristics, they remain with the incorporeal, and therefore sexless.