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Guardian angels

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 9:12am October 07 2016

We walk this campus every day, and still, we regularly see very old things we’ve never noticed before. Today, the morning light drew our eyes to these cherubim cherubs on Chittenden Hall.

Filed under Old Campus, Linsly-Chittenden, angels, sculpture

5 comments

  • Jeremy Bates
    Jeremy Bates, 10:05am October 07 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Perhaps not cherubim, but cherubs?

  • Michael Lazare
    Michael Lazare, 2:22pm October 07 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Nope .Plural of cherus is cherubim.

  • Michael Lazare
    Michael Lazare, 2:23pm October 07 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Finger slipped. Plural of cherub is cherubim.

  • Jeremy Bates
    Jeremy Bates, 5:20pm October 07 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    My point was not grammatical; I think there's a category mistake here.

    If the carving were of many-eyed, Hebrew-Bible cherubim, you of course would be correct.

    This sculpture, however, shows Renaissance putti. Ezekiel reported nothing of this kind.

    Hence cherubs.

  • Michael Lazare
    Michael Lazare, 8:28pm October 07 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    I bow to your erudition. I was thinking of grammar.

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