A Wikipedia article on Matthew the Apostle, recording that, like the other three evangelists, he is traditionally depicted in Christian art alongside one of the four living creatures of Revelation 4:7, and that the creature paired with Matthew takes the form of a winged man, commonly rendered as an angel.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the winged-man angel as Matthew's traditional artistic attribute, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and tagging an actual painting of Matthew with an angel. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Matthew directly: "A Wikipedia article on Matthew the Apostle, recording that, like the other three evangelists, he is traditionally depicted in Christian art alongside one of the four living creatures of Revelation..."
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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