Golden Angels is the baroque end of the collection, and it runs in two registers. The first is the cathedral: a nude young angel standing full length in the nave, wings of gold and amber lit from behind so every feather glows, a stained-glass window burning at the far end and the light coming down the aisle toward him. He wears gold and nothing else – bracers to the elbow, a pendant on a heavy chain, sometimes a circlet. The second is closer and richer: gold-and-white winged men against deep red baroque stone and broken walls, painted rather than photographed, gold chains at the throat and a hard rim light along the shoulder. Lean, young and mostly smooth, fair to olive, hair blond, ginger or dark. The light is what sells the divinity in both. Created by Jeff Dupler, AI assisted with Flux Pro or MidJourney, and Photoshop if needed.
Nude male angels with enormous gold and amber wings, wearing gold bracers and chains and nothing else, in cathedral light shafts and gilded baroque halls.
