"We wanted to reintegrate these two children into the composition, " he said of the cherubs.
Angels appear on earrings, thimbles and dinner plates, as flying pins and cherubs curled up asleep.
Inside, the Basilica is packed with statues of popes, saints and cherubs peering out from every surface.
Around a brilliant Hockney-blue swimming pool, a host of plump black cherubs shriek and splash with pleasure.
We're talking entire floors of near-palaces, with multiple bathrooms, indoor pools, 40-foot ceilings, and cherubs carved into the door frames.
The exhibit's most giddy and irreverent section deals with the solo adventures of the cherubs in the 19th and 20th centuries.
While one might think that taking the cherubs out of the painting's context is a modern phenomenon, it has been going on since 1800.
Exhibited in a converted chapel flooded with light, it is the first of approximately 20 renditions Murillo made of the Virgin Mary surrounded by angelic cherubs.
In Kurt Schwitters's mischievous Dadaist collage of 1921, a wheel covers the cherubs and Mary becomes a Louise Brooks lookalike with short hair and modern hat.
What might in one, as a satirical cartoon of cherubs as an example of Rule 34, be just a joke could in another garner a prison sentence.
The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.
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You hear the creak of caskets opening, the tap of tiny feet as cherubs dance excitedly, and the clanking of cast-iron doors as angels go about their business on narrow lanes lined with weeping widows.
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It is ironic that the Sistine Madonna's most famous aspect is not its emotionally complex portrait of Mary and Jesus, but rather the cherubs propping themselves up on an altar at the base of the composition.
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