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The Annunciation
c. 1434–1436 · oil on canvas transferred from panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For the Annunciation · 25 March
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Gabriel comes in smiling, crowned, in brocade, his wings speckled like a peacock's. Our Lady lifts both hands from her book. Down the gold rays from a high window the Holy Spirit descends toward her as a small white Dove. The National Gallery of Art counts those rays as seven, for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. It notes that Gabriel's sceptre is rock crystal, which medieval lapidaries called petrified water, and likens that change from liquid to stone to Christ's life, death and Resurrection. The angel's greeting is written in gold between them rather than spoken, and her reply is painted upside down, legible only from above: addressed, the Gallery reads, to God rather than to us. Jan van Eyck gives the Dove the whole height of the church to travel.
Sources: NGA, 'Stories and Symbols in Jan van Eyck's The Annunciation' · NGA object page and 'Stories and Symbols' essay
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)