Annunciation / Artist Unknown, Antwerp School, Belgium
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1992/1.135
- Title
- Annunciation
- Artist Nationality
- Belgian
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1520
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Belgium (nation)
- Flanders (region)
- Antwerpen (province)
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Belgium (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Flanders (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Antwerpen (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Charles H. Sawyer
- Style/Group/Movement
- Northern Resaissance
- Dimensions
- 77.47 cm x 61.6 cm x 5.08 cm (30 1/2 in. x 24 1/4 in. x 2 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- altarpiece
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- Bibilcal
- Physical Description
- An angel, holding a scepter in his left hand and making a gesture of speech with his right, interrupts the Virgin at her reading. She kneels on the floor and rests her left hand on an open book placed atop a lectern. A vase with a flowering lily sits on the floor between the angel and the Virgin and a small white dove encircled by a halo hovers between them. The scene unfolds within an elaborate and richly decorated interior that includes a chair and canopied bed in the background.
- Subject Matter
- This painted panel depicts the Annunciation in which the archangel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she has been chosen to give birth to the son of God. The Virgin turns from her reading and humbly accepts the divine decree as the Holy Spirit, a white dove encircled by light, descends to impregnate her. The flowering white lily placed on the floor nearby symbolizes her virtue and purity.
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- altarpieces
- angels
- antwerp (inhabited place)
- christianity
- doves
- panel painting (image-making)
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- antwerpen (province)
- associated concepts
- belgium (nation)
- birds
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- europe (continent)
- flanders (region)
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 821 x 1117
- File Size
- 89 KB
- Record
- 1992/1.135
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"Annunciation; Artist Unknown, Antwerp School, Belgium." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1992-sl-1.135/1992_1.135.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
