Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

In this stunning image, almost 100 years old (the artist's signature and date, 1923 is in the upper right corner), Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), depicts Mary as a contemporary girl. The painting can be seen in the National Museum in Warsaw, one of the oldest museums in Poland. 

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 

This lovely Annunciation in oil, crayon and gold was painted by Viggo Pedersen of Denmark. Pedersen was better known as a landscape painter, though there are attestations that he did "some" religious art in the 1890's. That this Annunciation is his work is testified to by his son in an inscription on the reverse of the painting.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 I cropped the page on which this image is featured in order to reduce the file size and allow you to see the image itself more easily. The original, a woodcut in a classical style, is from the Statens Museum of Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark. The image is by Melchio Lorck, whose initials appear in Mary's prie-dieu.

See the original (in its full setting) on the museum site.

Annunciation woodcut by Melchio Lorck (c 1574)
Statens Museum of Kunst

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 

Annunciation, Kazimierz Sichulski (1934)