Sunday, August 13, 2023

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 

Pieter Lastman's 1618 Annunciation (with its playful cat eyeing Mary's yarn!) hints at his stay in Rome, where Caravaggio was in the height of his career (corresponding to some particular depths of his life). Great in his own artistic contributions, the Dutch Lastman is best known as the teacher of Rembrandt van Rijn.

The painting now resides in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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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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