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Annunciation

In the New Testament, the announcement to Mary by the archangel Gabriel that she was to be the mother of Christ; the feast of the Annunciation is 25 March (also known as Lady Day).

In painting, Mary is usually shown interrupted while reading. A white dove, symbolizing the Holy Spirit, hovers above. White lilies, representing her purity, stand in a vase or are carried by the archangel.



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An example is one of those renaissance Annunciations whose connection with the Villa Medici, Fiesole, for which it is the big illustration, is not explained.
In the garden of good and .. by Lyall, Sutherland / The Architectural Review
They have heard punctuating annunciations, prophecies, and testimonies about Jesus.
The healing of the bent woman: a narrative interpretation of Luke ... by Torgerson, Heidi / Currents in Theology and Mission
If annunciations and negotiations are about communication and representation, the problems raised by those two activities affect, not only the arguments of the various authors studied here, but the rhetoric and authority of their own texts--an aspect that deserves more attention than it gets.
Daniel Menager. Diplomatie et theologie a la Renaissance by Hampton, Timothy / Renaissance Quarterly
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