Raphael (Sistine Madonna): * see EndNote<A>

aka the Madonna di San Sisto, oil painting, commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius II for the church of San Sisto, Piacenza.   The Madonna, holding the Christ Child and flanked by Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara, stands on clouds before dozens of obscured cherubim, while two distinctive winged cherubim rest on their elbows beneath her.

 

finale of Faust II:

In Faust part 2 Scene V, a chorus of holy men (which includes Pater Ecstaticus, Pater Profundis & Pater Seraphicus), are singing the praises of Heaven.  A host of angels enters, bearing the immortal remains of Faust.  Other angelic choirs join in the singing.  They are joined by the spirits of children who died in innocence at birth. 

 

Fra Bartolommeo:

1472-1517, Italian painter of religious subjects; spent his career in Florence until his mid-forties, when he travelled to work in various cities, as far south as Rome; trained with Cosimo Roselli, in the 1490s fell under the influence of Savonarola, which led him to become a Dominican friar in 1500, renouncing painting for several years.  He was instructed to resume painting for the benefit of his order in 1504, and then developed an idealized High Renaissance style.  He painted both in oils and fresco, and some of his drawings are pure landscape sketches that are the earliest of this type from Italy.  He was a friend of Raphael & the 2 painters influenced each other.

 

Leonardo (St. Jerome): * see EndNote<B>

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (1480), unfinished tempera on oil, depicts Saint Jerome at his retreat in the Syrian desert, living as a hermit.  He kneels in a rocky landscape, gazing at a crucifix faintly visible at the extreme right.  In his right hand he holds a rock with which he is traditionally shown beating his chest in penance. At his feet is the lion, his loyal companion after he extracted a thorn from its paw.