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"The Wounded Angel (Finnish: Haavoittunut enkeli) (1903) is a painting by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg. It is one of the most recognizable of Simberg's works, and was voted as Finland's "national painting" in a vote held by the Ateneum art museum in 2006.[1]
Like other Simberg paintings, The Wounded Angel evokes a serious, even gloomy atmosphere. The central figure of the angel has a bandage around her eyes and traces of blood on her wing. The two young bearers are dressed in somber colours, as if in mourning, and the one in the right stares directly out of the painting at the viewer with a serious expression, only made more so by the youth of the two boys."
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