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The Annunciation
1405–1408/9 · Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
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Gabriel kneels with a stem of lilies, and Our Lady, kneeling at her gilded desk, lays one hand on her breast. Between them the Holy Spirit comes down as a dove. Above the vaulted room God the Father leans from a balcony and sends Him. The Limbourg brothers painted this page to open the Hours of the Virgin, and gave it the richest border in the book: prophets and musical angels in the scrolling vines, with the duke's bears and swans below. The Metropolitan Museum, which holds the manuscript entire, calls the border unlike any other in it. Heaven leans out of a window, and the Word waits on her answer.
Sources: The Met's own folio commentary for fol. 30r (The Art of Illumination exhibition site), read 2026-09-02 · Timothy Husband, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) — the full-manuscript exhibition catalogue
And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:38 · Douay-Rheims