Tagged: The Annunciation

The Annunciation and the Medieval Imagination

Ferial Day Including iconography from Adam and Eve, prototypes, and Mary’s background history are some of the ways that artists have expanded the “storytelling” of the Annunciation, according to art historian Margaret Duffy.  This...

Behold the Handmaid of the Lord

The Annunciation The importance of March 25 in salvation history is woven into this piece on the Dominicana blog, that notes J.R.R. Tokien’s use of this date for the destruction of the ring and...