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
Angel of the Presence an archangel in the Bible, but is so called in Intertestamental period sources like the Book of Enoch. Charlesworth, James H., ed. "The Old Testament Pseudepigriapha". Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Doubleday, 1983, 1985. Angel of the Presence In some Judeo-Christian traditions, the Angel of the Presence / Face (lit. "faces", Hebrew: "Mal'ak ha-Panim" or "Mal'akh ha-Panim", מלאך הפנים) or Angel of his presence / face (Hebrew: "Mal'ak Panayw" or "Mal'akh Panav", מַלְאַךְ פָּנָיו) refers to an entity variously considered angelic or else identified with God himself. The phrase occurs in , which states that, throughout the history of