Crossword-Solution: MANDORLA
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| HOLY figure, almond-shaped figure containing representation of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MANDORLA (5)
The mandorla-shaped glory surrounds the Virgin's figure, studded with faintly discerned cherub heads.
But, apart from the fact that he holds the scroll of a prophet, whereas one would rather expect Joshua to carry a sword, this statue is so closely related to the little prophets of the Mandorla door that it is almost certainly coeval with them, and consequently anterior in date to the period of the Joshua for which Donatello was paid some years later.
One of them was on the north side, as an early description mentions the "_Gigante sopra la Annuntiata_,"[29] that is above the Annunciation on the Mandorla door.
This statue shows a doubt and hesitation which did not affect Donatello when making the little prophets for the Mandorla door.
This is precisely the treatment observed in the Mandorla relief, the Martelli David, the young Gattamelata, and the Amorino in the Bargello: in a lesser degree it is observable in the Isaac and the Siena Virtues.