Pecorino's pear and almond gratin gratin di pere e mandorla.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

An inspired composition, this shows a figure elevated in its mandorla of flame rising above the landscape it touches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extreme Art] Reference

And notice that the base of the violin is also the product of those two overlapping circles that create the mandorla shape with which we began this demonstration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Charles Explores 'Mysterious Unity' Of The Universe In New Book] Reference

The lowest band, with the flattened Gothic canopies over Beuronese angels (abruptly terminated at the center), lacks the strength to support all this superstructure, while the empty mandorla at the center of the register puzzles me.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unfortunate Artistic Proposal for the Josephinum] Reference

The aureole obtained the Italian name of mandorla from its almond shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Father, the cluster, and the mandorla, with innumerable lights and very sweet music, truly represented Paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi] Reference

Above this sorrowful scene you may see the Glory and Assumption of Our Lady in a mandorla glory, upheld by six angels, while St. Thomas kneels below, stretching out his arms, assured at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference

Madonna enthroned among the Cherubim in her oval mandorla, upheld by four puissant fair angels, turns with a gesture most natural and lovely to St. Thomas, who kneels to her, his drapery in beautiful folds about him, lifting his hands in prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference

Madonna, who in mid-heaven gazes upward, seated on a cloud, in a mandorla of cherubs, surrounded by four angels playing musical instruments, while two others are at her feet following her in her flight; below, three saints, with St. Michael, stand disconsolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference

In the midst of this cluster of eight angels -- for so was it rightly called -- was a mandorla of copper, hollow within, wherein were many holes showing certain little lamps fixed on iron bars in the form of tubes; which lamps, on the touching of a spring which could be pressed down, were all hidden within the mandorla of copper, whereas, when the spring was not pressed down, all the lamps could be seen alight through some holes therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi] Reference

When the cluster of angels had reached its place, this mandorla, which was fastened to the aforesaid little rope, was lowered very gradually by the unwinding of the rope with another little windlass, and arrived at the platform where the Representation took place; and on this platform, precisely on the spot where the mandorla was to rest, there was a raised place in the shape of a throne with four steps, in the centre of which there was a hole wherein the iron point of the mandorla stood upright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi] Reference

The mandorla of the Assumption, Sta Maria del.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

A mandorla, surrounded by angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference