This brilliantly executed Annunciation by the Master of Braunschweig was painted about the year 1275.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
This image by Benvenuto di Giovanni presents many classic features of a Renaissance Annunciation.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
The Annunciation (Arthur Hacker, 1892); The Tate Gallery.
In Hacker's image, we find Mary with a water-jar rather than busy about her weaving. This refers to the Annunciation story in the "Protoevangelium of James," an early non-biblical book which is the source of many popular devotional aspects related to Mary (for instance, the names of her parents).
Monday, February 3, 2020
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
This Annunciation (from the Carmel in Ware, UK) is in the distinctive style of religious iconographer Stephen Foster. You can find his beautiful Crucifixion in Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church in London's Kensington neighborhood.
Here is a fuller image from a slight angle:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
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