cherub

While artists kept making him out to be Christ-like, they had more fun with the Mexican Marian apparition, beyond the traditional image of Her in prayer held up by a cherub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Church and government officials launched an investigation after pictures of a cherub at the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina showed her newly restored face had an uncanny likeness to right-wing leader, Giorgia Meloni.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

A cherub statue the Welnicks placed outside as a memorial to a child they lost to miscarriage looked down at the rubble.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022

If a cherub were a teapot, then this would be it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

Artemis had had it installed behind a cherub over the main entrance.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Song floats through “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” like hovering cherubim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

There are a few visual effects, to indicate hazy memories, and a through line built around a white piano decorated with cherubim, which ends the film on a happy note.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

In one passage, a prophet called Ezekiel describes a "vision of God being transported on cherubim", with four wings and "feet shaped like the sole of a calf's foot".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2021

“It’s very ornate, very detailed. I believe I recall cherubim on the ceiling.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017

Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a little black cherubim just from a church tower doing amazing things with anybody’s dice.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

I was fascinated entering the Catholic churches and finding Black figures as Jesus and the disciples, but often alongside white cherubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Filled with eccentric decorative touches that mirrored Simmons’ vibrant public persona, the property features everything from staircase cherubs and boldly patterned wallpaper to curved French doors, terraced gardens, and a key-shaped swimming pool.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Apparently it’s this ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, with its $7 million of gold leaf, that Trump wants now to re-create in the East Wing; the gold cherubs have already been brought up from Florida.

From Slate ● May 30, 2025

On El Dorado Drive, Raphael’s cherubs peered up at the clouds from a gold framed print perched against a sodden rug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

One of the cherubs was missing a nose; another had lost both hands and a foot.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago