Monday, December 14, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Halfway through Advent we have another Annunciation from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (worth seeing in full resolution on the museum website; follow the link). According to the museum notes, this 25.5 X 15" painting, which is in the chapel, is  "probably [from] southern Germany, 1450-1550, by a 'rough provincial hand'; the composition was derived from Michael Wolegmut's altar in Church of the Holy Cross, Nuremberg."

("Rough provincial hand"?!)
From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, used under
the Creative Commons License
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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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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