The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome dating from the second century. Arguably, no subject has been more profoundly felt and more beautifully handled by the old painters, nor more vilely mishandled by the moderns than the Annunciation, of all the scenes in the life of Mary. Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus the Son of God. The Annunciation has been a key topic in Christian art in general, as well as in Roman Catholic Marian art, particularly during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

2. Frederick Pickford
Marriott
(British, 1876-
1935)
Annunciation
painted gesso and
mother-of-pearl on
panel

3. Annunciation attributed to Joos Van Cleve, Circa 1520 (reverse)

5. Joos Van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1485–1540)
Annunciation - Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal

6. Joos Van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1485–1540)
Annunciation - Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal

7. Joos Van Cleve
(Netherlandish, 1485–1540)
Triptych of the Incarnation
c. 1510 - 1515
Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal

8. Joos Van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1485–1540)
Triptych of the Incarnation, c. 1510 - 1515
Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal

9. Joos Van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1485–1540)
Triptych of the Incarnation, c. 1510 - 1515
Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal

10. Joos
Van
Cleve
-
Triptych
of
the
Incarnation
Museu
de
Arte
Sacra
do
Funchal

11. Reverse of the scrolls of the Triptych of Saint Peter
Flemish painting, attributed to Joos Van Cleve

12. Crozier with
the
Annunciation,
Limoges
enamel
Virgin of the Annunciation
attributed to Jan Provost
ca. 1525-1529
Museu de Arte Sacra do
Funchal

13. Unknown artist
Bavaria around 1475
Virgin of the Annunciation
Cologne Wallraf Richartz
Museum

15. Francesco Pesellino
and Fra Filippo Lippi
and Workshop,
Diptych –
Annunciation
(c.1450–55)

16. Francesco
Curradi
(1570
-
1661)
Annunciazione
San
Francesco
(Grosseto)

17. Francesco Curradi (1570 - 1661)
The Angel of the Annunciation and The Madonna of the Annunciation

18. Attributed to Francisco de
Zurbarán (1598 – 1664)
Bob Jones University Museum
& Gallery, Greenville, SC

19. Antoni Serra
(1869 -
1932)
Annunciation
MNAC
(Museu
Nacional d'Art
de Catalunya)
Anatoly Timoshkin (born in Baku in 1939) Annunciation

20. Anatoly Timoshkin (born in Baku in 1939) Annunciation

21. Besik Arbolishvili - Annunciation
Besik
Arbolishvili
(Georgian,
1955)
Annunciation

22. Besik Arbolishvili
(Georgian, 1955)
Annunciation

23. Gocha Kakabadze (Georgian, 1966)
Annunciation

24. College Sainte Marie Albi - Annunciation
Emile Bernard (1868-1941)
The Annunciation, 1890
Madrid, Musée Thyssen
Bornemisza

25. Amedeo
Bocchi
(Italian, 1883
– 1976)
Annunciation

26. Amedeo Bocchi
(Italian, 1883 – 1976)
Annunciation

27. Bulgarian
painter
?

28. Iain Campbell
(Glasgow)
Annunciation

29. Katie Whipple (American, 1991)
“The Angel Gabriel” and “The Virgin Mary,”
both are oil and gold on wood

30. Katie Whipple (American, 1991)
“The Angel Gabriel” and “The Virgin Mary,”

32. Katie
Whipple
(American,
1991)

33. Pictures: Internet
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