The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
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On the bridge two men read a message just delivered by the pigeon in the cage beside them. The Gallery calls it a witty analogy of the Annunciation itself — heaven's messenger and the town's arriving in the same picture by the same means. Ascoli Piceno had been granted self-government in 1482, and the news reached the town on 25 March, the feast of the Annunciation. So the city's own bishop, Emidius, stops Gabriel in the street to show him a model of Ascoli.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius', NG739, 1486; read 2026-08-27. · Alasdair Flint, entry on Crivelli's Annunciation, in Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting (London: The National Gallery, April 2014); read 2026-08-27.
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 4,226 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.