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

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

We're moving back to Spain this week for a late 14th (or maybe cusp of the 15th) century predella (bottom row of an altarpiece. The Annunciation and Crucifixion are the central panels, flanked on the left by St. John the Baptist and on the right by St. Catherine of Alexandria. Francesc Comes was a significant Majorcan artist and painter to the King of Aragon. (One of Comes' works in the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum is thought to feature a portrait of the king.)

Annunciation detail
Francesc Comes predella (Francesc Cambó Bequest, 1949)

Here is the predella in full:

Predella, Francesc Comes
Francesc Cambó Bequest, 1949

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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.