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

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Annunciation by Alonso Gallego (1457-1548). It would be interesting to see this altarpiece in its original setting ( the parish church of San Hipólito, in the town of Támara, Palencia, Spain), to understand why the torsos of Mary and Gabriel are so elongated and Gabriel's face, in particular, seems foreshortened.

Annunciation, 1530-1537
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

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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.