About the year 1400, however, a new version of the Annunciation scene suddenly appeared in European paintings, which portrays Mary at the moment of the Annunciation in a richly flowering garden. The ...

Q: Where did the Annunciation take place? Art shows different scenes. A: The oldest example of a western representation of the Annunciation with Mary kneeling next to a source and with a pitcher or ...

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.