Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

From the early 1300's comes this carved section of a Spanish Gothic altarpiece, the work of noted sculptor Jaume Cascalls.

Annunciation in alabaster by Jaume Cascalls (altarpiece fragment)
Permanent loan from the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona
to the Museu Provincial d'Antiguitats, 1879
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

With the return to Ordinary Time, we resume the weekly image of the Annunciation.

This bas-relief appears on the right side of the Cathedral (Duomo) of Florence. Photo by Sr. Sergia Ballini.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

The great Donatello sculpted this Annunciation in a dark stone called pietra serena, using gold leaf to brighten the scene. Originally for a family tomb, the piece now stands on its own in Florence's Church of the Holy Cross.
Photo by Sister Sergia Ballini.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

The bronze figures of Gabriel and the Virgin by Igor Mitorj are from the left-side door (completed only in 2005) of the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome (just beyond the Termini train station). The incomplete arms of both figures are the artist's homage to the state of the classical statues that had earlier been on display in a local museum.