Her 24 oil paintings draw upon the symbolism of flowers that pertain to legends about Mary’s life story and mysteries. The title of this piece, The Annunciation to Mary – Lily and Violet, refers to ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao has restored a 15th century painting of the Annunciation by Pedro Berruguete.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation was likely one of his earlier paintings, in which the angel Gabriel swoops down with feathered wings to greet the Virgin Mary with a small bouquet of lilies.

The Annunciation would be second only to the Passion in terms of representation in pre-modern Western art. It is nearly impossible to consider Catholic devotion to Mary without thinking of the ...

With a focus on the significance of the Annunciation rather than Mary and the angel themselves, the paintings have a diffuse gentle light, soft yet pervasive and a mystical spirituality.

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: For Roman Catholics, today is marked as the Annunciation, when Mary heard that she would conceive Jesus. Orthodox Christians - like commentator Caroline Langston - celebrated ...

Michael Peppard, an associate professor of theology at Fordham University, argues that the woman at the well is the Virgin Mary. In a Jan. 20 op-ed in The New York Times, Peppard argues that the wall ...

It is now 150 years since Pietro Gagliardi, the renowned Italian artist, produced Tarxien’s titular painting of Our Lady of the Annunciation, depicting the moment when the Virgin Mary opened her ...

On the Feast of the Annunciation ... and as Mary herself could tell us, that has never been safe. Matthew J. Milliner (@millinerd) is an associate professor of art history at Wheaton College.

The feast of the Annunciation marks the visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he told her that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is celebrated on 25 ...