The Angelus Project

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Another Annunciation from Christian artist Nyoman Darsane of Bali, Indonesia. This batik Annunciation appears to be dated 1998.

Learn more about the artist at https://indigenousjesus.blogspot.com/2010/05/featured-artist-nyoman-darsane.html

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

From Chartres Cathedral, by way of the University of Pittsburg (and Professor Emeritus M. Alison Stones) comes this tiny Annunciation in an initial D from an illuminated manuscript. Most of the manuscript Annunciations we have are from personal prayerbooks (the Book of Hours), but this one is from a Pontifical: basically the service book used by the celebrant for the sacraments and other rites. If I understood the write-up correctly, this image is from the page for the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25).

I'll give you the detail first, and then the whole picture in its context, so you can appreciate just how much artistry is involved.

Incipit from Chartres Cathedral Pontifical.
Dr M. Alison Stones

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Sad to say, I have been unable to find any specific information about this Annunciation. A Google image search yielded the dubiously helpful results of "Holy Place."

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.