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The Annunciation imaged 1430-1680

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/20/the-annunciation-imaged-1430-1680/

<p>The Annunciation to the Virgin Mary is traditionally celebrated nine calendar months before the feast of Christmas, on 25 March. This marks the Gospel account of the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary and telling her that she will become the mother of Jesus Christ, so marking the first step leading to the Nativity. This weekend I show some of the finest paintings of the Annunciation in preparation for the celebration of Christmas next week. Today’s are drawn from the period from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century, then tomorrow leaps forward to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p>
<p>As one of the most popular themes for Catholic religious paintings, the majority follow a standard formula, which becomes rather repetitive. The Archangel Gabriel is shown with an astonished young Mary, accompanied by symbols of her purity such as white lily flowers, and sometimes a white dove representing the Holy Spirit.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_21793" style="width: 1205px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/vaneyckannuciationdiptych.jpg"><img alt="vaneyckannuciationdiptych" class="size-full wp-image-21793" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/vaneyckannuciationdiptych.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-21793">Jan van Eyck (c 1390–1441), The Annunciation Diptych (c 1433-35), oil on panel, dimensions not known, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons #RoguesGallery after #ElGreco @Independent on #GianniInfantino #Trump #WorldCup #WorldCupDraw – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Today's pick: The Disrobing of Christ (1579) - El Greco. #art #ElGreco #Crucifixion

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/895.html

1 de octubre de 1541, nace el pintor cretense Doménikos Theotokópoulos, #ElGreco 🖌️🎨🖼️✨💜

Si contemplas #ElExpolio, adviertes el enorme talento de #ElGreco para acrisolar el universo pictórico de su tiempo: Bizancio, Venecia, Roma… También ves que, para #EmocionArte, se hizo valer, ocupando un lugar central en una España marcada por la Contrarreforma.
@SICP_de_Toledo

8. El Greco didn’t paint dogma.
He painted spiritual weather.
Storms of feeling. Clouds of doctrine.
The kind of art that doesn’t answer prayers — it repeats them back to you.
Bent. Blurred. Beautiful.

#AfternoonArtCritic #ElGreco #WaterFromYourEyes #Madonna #KeyWestPaleAle
#AltTextIncluded #DeathAndAscension #PopAndRenaissance

A dark, muted oil painting of a middle-aged man with a long, narrow face, pointed beard, and large, expressive eyes. He wears a black robe trimmed with fur and a white ruffled collar. The background is plain brown, emphasizing his intense, slightly sorrowful gaze. His skin is pale and angular, his features elongated — stylized in the signature manner of El Greco. The expression suggests quiet depth, as if he's been thinking for a very long time.

🧵 Afternoon Art Critic: El Greco Edition

with your resident non-artist and non-critic
🎨 The Artist: El Greco
🎧 The Sound: It’s a Beautiful Place to Die – Water From Your Eyes
🍺 The Sip: Key West Pale Ale (tropical, haunted, going warm)

#AfternoonArtCritic #ElGreco #ArtThread #AltTextIncluded

The National Gallery of Ireland houses a collection of #europeanart spanning the 14th to the 21st-century

Pic 3 #elgreco
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1590-1595

Pic 4 #jacobvanruisdael
The Castle of Bentheim 1653

Pics 5 & 6 #jeanlemaire
The Childhood of Bacchus 1630

Pic 7 Nathaniel Hone
The Pont du Gard 1885

Pic 8 Ilya Bolotowsky
City Rectangle 1948, influenced by #mondrian

Pic 9 #claudemonet
Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat 1874

Pics 10 & 11 #renoir
Roses and Young Woman in White Reading 1873

Same trip to town. These clouds reminded me of #ElGreco ( #painter ) clouds- I enhanced the effect a little by smoothing them a touch...
#Alberta #DavidThompsonCountry #CountryLiving #landscape #photography #weather #Hwy11

$A somewhat dim cloud shaded view in early evening, looking through the windshield of a moving vehicle. A straight 2-lane country highway stretches away in front with yellow dotted line down the centre and solid white lines marking the paved shoulders. It disappears over hills and fading into blue forest and distant mountains on the horizon, with a few vehicles including a large transport truck approaching in mid frame. The roadsides are roughly mown green, with a long fat pressure hose catching the light in the left hand ditch (carrying stolen water to an oil fracking site). To each stretch green fields with gold swathes of canola or ripening cereals. Farther on and farther back are patches, rows and expanses of mixed dark woodland. The sky is 2/3 or more filled with patches and horizontal rows of cloud, medium dark blue--grey with lighter edges, looking rather smooth. They reminded me of the clouds in El Greco paintings and I slightly enhanced the effect by smoothing them a bit more.$

Christ driving the Traders from the Temple (El Greco, 1600), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/07/christ-driving-traders-from-temple-el.html

#art #visual #paintings #mannerism #elgreco

Today's pick: The Adoration of the Magi (1568) - El Greco. #art #ElGreco #AdorationOfTheMagi

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/952.html

Went to Madrid for a day-and-a-half, caught the last day of the #ElGreco exhibit at the Prado and the last day of the #feriadellibro, saw some friends, got a run in before the temps melted me (accidentally brought mismatched shoes 😂) and now back in Barcelona. #madrid #arte #Running #runnersofmastodon

7.5 miles run and Palacio Real in Madrid

Today's pick: The Fifth Seal (ca. 1610) - El Greco. #art #ElGreco #Apocalypse

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/988.html

Today's pick: Pentecost (c. 1600) - El Greco. #art #ElGreco #Pentecost

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/949.html

As the Boston MFA caption points out, the artist's decision to limit the colours makes this so powerful. It's one of those pictures I come back to again and again in my mind's eye.

Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino http://collections.mfa.org/objects/31236/fray-hortensio-felix-paravicino;jsessionid=CAC9811FF32083CF707438FC2C92D358

#Art #Painting #ElGreco #FrayHortensioFélixParavicino #Portrait #SpanishArt #BostonMFA