Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This week we have an Annunciation by Paolo Caliari (better known as "il Veronese," or, "the man from Verona"). I've featured Veronese's Annunciations before. 

This Annunciation, like many featured this year, is from the website of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, but it is actually not part of their collection. Instead, it is on a long-term loan from a collection of Renaissance works.

Annunciation by Veronese, c 1580-1582
From the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Another Annunciation by Veronese this week! Here again we see the master's architectural setting telling part of the story. I especially like the way the light of the Holy Spirit is treated!

Read more about the origins of this image and the recent restoration at savevenice.org

Annunciation, Veronese (1578)
Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Veronese's stunning 1558 image can be found in the Basilica of Sts John and Paul ("Zanipolo") in Venice.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

The Annunciation, Veronese (1572)

On this feast of the Holy Name of Mary, it is lovely to read Luke's story of the Annunciation with its opening sentence:  "In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary."