1. surrounded by or depicted with a halo or aureole; having a golden or luminous circle around the head
Usage: often used in art history and religious contexts to describe depictions of saints or holy figures

Examples

• The aureoled saint in the medieval painting glowed with divine light.
• Renaissance artists frequently depicted the Virgin Mary as aureoled.
• The aureoled figure dominated the center of the altarpiece.
• In religious iconography, aureoled figures represent spiritual sanctity.
• The manuscript illumination showed an aureoled angel hovering above the scene.