J. W. Waterhouse provides a modern-looking Annunciation scene in an image painted over 100 years ago.
Monday, September 25, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
J. W. Waterhouse provides a modern-looking Annunciation scene in an image painted over 100 years ago.
Monday, September 18, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
The background of this Annunciation (from a French Book of Hours ca 1375) seems to replicate the halos of Mary and Gabriel, while bursting with leaves as if a continuation of the lily plant between them. From the collection of The Morgan Library and Museum. Gabriel's scroll reads "Gloriae et".
Monday, September 11, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
Veronese's stunning 1558 image can be found in the Basilica of Sts John and Paul ("Zanipolo") in Venice.
Monday, September 4, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
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About the Angelus Project
We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at