Monday, October 28, 2019

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

You'd never know from looking at il Guercino's 1646 masterpiece that the artist was a largely self-taught painter nicknamed "Squint-eye." His eye seems to have been as exquisite as his technique!

Guercino, like many artists of his day, was called upon to create a number of Annunciations. But in more than one he offered a unique perspective: All the action is going on in Heaven, while on earth, Mary is as yet unaware of the way her life (and ours!) is about to change.

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Having worked for months on the 2015 restoration of the Guercio Annunciation, restorer Licia Tasini gives us a sense of the size of the painting.

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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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