Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim 1450 by Jean Fouquet, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, Belgian. ( enthroned Madonna holds the Christ Child on her knee. She is robed as a queen, with an ermine cloak and a crown decorated with pearls and precious stones. She is surrounded by the two kinds of angel whom the influential Christian thinker Pseudo-Dionysius classified as the most important creatures in heaven. The red seraphim were the highest in rank. )

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