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Meaning of "mandorla"

Mandorla: In art and religious symbolism, mandorla refers to an almond-shaped halo often depicted surrounding holy figures such as Christ or the Virgin Mary
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  • A vesica piscis-shaped aureola that surrounds the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, or represents God the Father (who is not traditionally depicted) in traditional Eastern Christian art.

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The savior is in a mandorla above surrounded by angels.
It is embroidered with a mandorla.
The mandorla is the place of poetry.
She is carried within a brilliant mandorla by three angels.
Mandorla is the almond shape that the two circles make when they overlap.
Christ in Majesty shown within a mandorla shape in a medieval illuminated manuscript.
The Virgin Mary and the major angels were also shown enclosed in a mandorla.
The Child is surrounded by a blue mandorla in accordance with a Syrian iconographic schema.
The lunette is filled by a lovely relief of Mary in mandorla with two angels.
Villa Mandorla is on two levels.
The aureole obtained the Italian name of mandorla from its almond shape.
The mandorla is thought to have derived from either Greek or Roman prototypes.
The Virgin and Child in a mandorla.
The Mandorla door.
When we are born, the birth canal is indeed a mandorla.

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That 's what Mandorla creates with its incubator.
In the center of the representation, Christ is enthroned as supreme Judge in a rainbow-colored mandorla.
Christ Child is in a mandorla on Mary 's chest.
The number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the Vesica Piscis or Mandorla.
It is offered in the Oak, Oak Farina and Oak Mandorla shades, brushed, not bevelled.
West wall ; Christ, the judge, flanked by angels, is seated in a mandorla.
That 's the mandorla.
In the symbolism of Hildegard of Bingen the mandorla refers to the Cosmos . [ 7 ].
In the symbolism of Hildegarde von Bingen the mandorla refers to the Cosmos . [ 6 ].
By 1391 he was working on the Porta della Mandorla of the Duomo in Florence.

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