Head of an Angel

The angel is depicted with soft features, golden curly hair, and a serene expression, looking slightly to the side. A small red flame emerges from the top of its head, and it possesses multi-colored wings decorated with eye-like patterns resembling peacock feathers. The figure wears a dark blue tunic with an embroidered gold collar, framed by a stippled circular halo.

The flame atop the head identifies the figure as a Seraph, the 'burning one' from the highest choir of angels in the celestial hierarchy. This iconography is rooted in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whose celestial hierarchies were foundational to the Neoplatonic fusion of theology and light-metaphysics in 15th-century Florence.