AtD translation: picked up a minor angel

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark. And sorry for the late reply.

Does it mean a painting depicting a "minor angel" in this particular
context?

On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> A 'minor angel' is from Rilke's mythology...
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P725.20-29   UP HERE IN NORTH ITALY, as in France one might buy ordinary
>> village wine hoping to find a few cases of overrun from a great vineyard
>> nearby, Vibe’s theory was to buy all the school-of-Squarciones he could
>> put
>> his hands on in the hopes that someplace in there might be an unattributed
>> Mantegna somebody had overlooked. It was the current fashion to disrespect
>> the painting skills of the famed Paduan collector and impresario himself,
>> so any actual Squarciones kicking around, including embroideries and
>> tapestries (for he had begun his working life as a tailor), would be going
>> for a song. In fact, Scarsdale had already picked up a minor angel just by
>> singing “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” to a sacristan who might
>> have been insane.
>>
>> What does "a minor angel" refer to here exactly?
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