The Angelus Project: Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

We've been spending a lot of time in Spain this year! Here's another altarpiece, with an Annunciation detail. This time the work is in tempera, stucco reliefs and remains of varnished metal plate on wood, and that metal features some amazing details, evidence of the quality of the workshop of La Seu d'Urgell (whose Annunciation we saw on January 29).

Annunciation (detail from altarpiece below)

Bottom row, from left: Gabriel and Mary (Annunciation);
Joseph, Mary, Simeon (Presentation; see the doves Joseph is carrying);
The Dormition of Mary.
Top row, from left: Gaspar, Balthasar, Melchior (the Magi);
Mary and Christ-child enthroned; Joseph enthroned; The Visitation.

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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.