The Annunciation (Q60514797)
Label from: English (en)
movement:
Early Netherlandish painting (Q443153)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
Aelbrecht Bouts (Q380743)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
main subject:
Annunciation (Q154326)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
BALaT object ID:
40002288
RKDimages ID:
248317
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.635
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Mary, depicted here as a seemingly ordinary, albeit affluent, woman, is interrupted by the archangel Gabriel while reading from a small book of hours in her home. The decor and furnishings, as well as the book, would have been familiar to any contemporary viewer. A model for women of the day, the Virgin Mary’s popularity was entwined with the popularity of books of hours, and the books contained numerous prayers to her. Mary was seen as the intercessor between humanity and God, hearing prayers and taking mercy on penitent individuals.
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