Annunciation
Angel announces conception
The Annunciation is the biblical event in which the angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and bear Jesus.
This scene has been depicted countless times in Christian art, with Gabriel typically shown presenting a lily to Mary.
The Feast of the Annunciation falls on March 25. (Lowercase annunciation is any formal announcement.)
Hebrew name meaning divine strength
- MaryCommon feminine name
- NazarethGalilean city of faith
- angelDivine winged messenger
- virginOne sexually inexperienced
greeting · visitation · incarnation · conception · Elizabeth · Luke · Ave Maria · Magnificat
Analysis of artistic symbols
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- MadonnaChrist's mother, or pop icon
- lilyTrumpet-shaped garden bloom
dove · halo · Leonardo · Botticelli · triptych · panel · illumination · manuscript
Gabriel
Hebrew name meaning divine strength
virgin · greeting · visitation · incarnation · conception · Elizabeth · Luke · Ave Maria · Magnificat · handmaid
iconography
Analysis of artistic symbols
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- MadonnaChrist's mother, or pop icon
lily · dove · halo · Leonardo · Botticelli · triptych · panel · illumination · manuscript · Renaissance
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- solemnitySerious, dignified quality
- MassCatholic worship service
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
holy day · Marian · feast day · calendar · commemoration · vespers · devotion
- BotticelliThe Birth of Venus, Birth of Venus, Venus and Mars, Saint Augustine, Saint Sebastian
- Biblical ReferencesAdam and Eve, ark, forbidden fruit, Garden of Eden, Ten Commandments
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Baroque sacred artaltarpiece, altarpieces, Catholic art, Catholic imagery, baroque art
- Biblical Artbiblical imagery, religious art, sacred art, crucifixion, nativity
AnnunciationPassion
Powerful consuming emotion
Pietà · Resurrection · Last Judgment · Assumption · Pentecost
Annunciationconcealment
Act of hiding something
suppression · silence · secrecy · withholding · silencing
- The AnnunciationAngel's pregnancy announcement to Mary