Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

The Annunciation (Juan de Flandes)
National Gallery of Art

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

In this image from the National Gallery of Art, the Annunciation forms the center of a four-panel work by Cosmè Tura (the left panel features St Francis of Assisi; the right the young Franciscan bishop St Louis of Toulouse). The four figures are set in a mountainous area at dawn (presumably; the Incarnation was the first "dawning" of the light of redemption on our sin-weary world).

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This interesting depiction of the Annunciation by Giannicolo di Paolo (c 1510/1515) features the scene  as two framed paintings (tondo) with a continuous background, as if we were looking through two portholes at an event unfolding on an outside balcony.
From the National Museum of Art.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Happy New Year!

To help you begin the year praying the Angelus three times a day, here is the first of many Annunciation images for you.

I am sorry I cannot find this 15th century illumination where I originally discovered it: The Walters Art Museum. I can read in the text is "Beautiful Mother" and "We praise you...for seven joys." Presumably this is from a private owner's Book of Hours, which often contained private devotions in addition to the liturgical texts of the Office.