The Annunciation
The original, as its museum records it
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Behind the Virgin, a Hebrew inscription along the bed's canopy quotes Isaiah: a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and call his name Immanuel. Cima wrote the prophecy into the room where it comes true.
The light is not daylight but, by medieval tradition, the light that travels with Gabriel; his arrival stirs the air enough to move his robe, hair, and the parchment on the bed's step.
That parchment names five silk weavers who commissioned it; the insect in the room, which resembles a wasp, is for Cavallini to Veronese a possible guild emblem: a silk moth.
Sources: Cavallini to Veronese, 'Cima da Conegliano'. · the light read as the divine light accompanying Gabriel rather than daylight; his arrival as a rush of air disturbing drapery, hair and the parchment; the cartellino with the signature, the date 1495 and five guild members' names · The National Gallery, London, Cima da Conegliano, two panels from the S. Maria dei Crociferi altarpiece.
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,480 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.