You would think that after curating this site for six years I would have run out of Annunciations. I was thinking the same thing.
And yet.
Here is a new-to-me artist, Rudolf Bacher, with his Ave Maria, circa 1890 from the Moravian Gallery, Brno:
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. Three times a day, we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: that "God so loved the world he sent his only Son" (Jn 3:16).
You would think that after curating this site for six years I would have run out of Annunciations. I was thinking the same thing.
And yet.
Here is a new-to-me artist, Rudolf Bacher, with his Ave Maria, circa 1890 from the Moravian Gallery, Brno:
This is a detail from a Triptych of the Annunciation by the "Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula," a Flemish artist circa 1450-1550.
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Sister Anne