Angel of the North Angel of the North The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is a steel sculpture of an angel, tall, with wings measuring across. The wings do not stand straight sideways, but are angled 3.5 degrees forward; Gormley did this to create "a sense of embrace". The angel like much of Gormley's other work is based on a cast of his body. It stands on the hill of Birtley, at Low Eighton in Lamesley, overlooking the A1 and A167 roads into Tyneside, and the
The Sealed Angel on real facts, the end of it was made up. What happened in reality he revealed in Chapter 41 of "The Pechersk Antics" set of memoir sketches. The story became the basis for the 1988 Russian-language choral work "The Sealed Angel", by Rodion Shchedrin. The Sealed Angel The Sealed Angel (Запеча′тленный а′нгел) is a story by Nikolai Leskov, written in 1872 and first published in the No.1, January 1873 issue of "The Russian Messenger". The story concerns a group of Old Believers whose revered icon of an angel is confiscated by officials and sealed with wax. Nikolai Leskov developed a