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 ...

The newly uncovered painting depicts a motif that was popular in the late Middle Ages. In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel drives a unicorn into a closed garden and into the lap ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

Mary is seized in the midst of a transition ... My favorite of Leonardo's paintings is probably the Annunciation. The most remarkable thing about this picture is the landscape and what’s in ...

A mix of contemporary artworks, heritage, enchanting landscapes and culinary delights makes Ghizzano a joy to visit ...

De Groft previously was director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. De Groft negotiated to have the Orlando Museum of Art be the first institution to display more than two dozen ...

490 To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role." 132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace".

In the New Testament Mary speaks only four times, beginning with the Annunciation ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ...

Here are five fun things to do this weekend and beyond, including comedian Jo Koy, the Bonita Brew Fest and the annual Edison ...