The origin of the depictions of angels can already be traced back to Judaism. Albrecht Dürer had the angels appear in connection with the apocalypse.  The early modern period popularized the illustration of small child angels with chubby cheeks. 

There was also controversy surrounding the nature of angels: scholars such as Thomas Aquinas pondered the question of how and why. 

Aquinas even argued that angels do not have to have bodies. But it is a topic that is missed out in Modern Art.

Artists like Alfred Schwarzenschild (1920) or Herbert James Draper (1898) painted the “Fallen Icarus”, but as we know, that`s Greek mythology.  

I would love to say that it was Caravaggio who inspired me to create a whole series of guys wearing these massive wings, as I have never seen that in paintings like that before. And a wise man once said, “Create your world! Paint what you like to see in paintings.”