Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This image by Josep Bernat Flaugier (1757 – 1813) dates to 1800 and features, rather unusually, two putti looking on. 

Annunciation (Flaugier, 1800)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 My community has an exceptionally high firewall that does not permit me to access web pages in ... certain countries. So I had to copy and past the information about the painter of this modern Annunciation from a Facebook page honoring the matriarch of an Italian-American family eatery. I don't know where she got it. (Probably on the other side of the firewall.)

Anyway, I chose this image for today because the abundance of lilies seems to speak of this week's Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (the patronal feast of and a Holy Day of Obligation in the U.S.).

Ukrainian Theotokos by Alexander Igorevych Okhapkin, born in 1962 in Kirovograd . In 1982 he graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Art College , in 1990 - Kiev Art Institute (studio of Shatalin). He paints icons depicting Our Lady and Jesus in Ukrainian attire. In his works, the traditional techniques of ancient icon painting and modern execution are synthesized. Art critics call his work "religious poetry in paints."

Annunciation, Alexander Okhapkin

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

All I have been able to find out about this Annunciation (so far!) is that it is possibly of Dutch origin, circa 1520, and is housed in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.

Annunciation, 1520
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin