This issue of Engramma is divided into two sections: the first one focuses on the representation of the angel between anthropomorphism and zoomorphism; the second one retraces some significant scenarios in the symbolic history of the winged bestiary, with a special focus on the figures of the eagle and the falcon. The two articles by Delphine Lauritzen, Comment le Quatrième Vivant (re)devient-il un ange ? Plasticité symbolique de l’anthropomorphisme sur les mosaïques de Ravenne, and Massimo Stella, Fabula angelica, l’ombelico del sacro tra Balzac e Apuleio, which open the issue, are in close d