Monday, October 29, 2018

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

https://www.wga.hu/html_m/l/lorenzo/venezian/annunci.html
According to the Web Gallery of Art, in this set of panels by Veneziano from 1371, "The represented saints are Sts Gregory, John the Baptist, James and Stephen. The signature and date are legible on the step of the throne. The solidity of the central figures suggests Emilian influence, but the luminary sensibility, the coloristic and decorative richness, and the presence of a fresh, flowering meadow (possibly one of the earliest of its kind) foreshadows the International Gothic, which would soon dominate the figurative arts throughout Europe."

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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.

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