The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise
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Two moments share one panel, and God the Father is the hinge between them. At the left Adam and Eve are driven out; at the centre Gabriel reaches the Virgin; and in the upper corner God points back at the exiles while looking ahead to the Annunciation — the disgrace and the remedy held in one gesture. The garden is in spring, which is the season of the Annunciation. At the right Joseph warms his hands at a fire: winter, and the birth still to come.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise', accession 1939.1.223, Samuel H. Kress Collection; read 2026-08-27. · Carl Brandon Strehlke, entry cat. 31, in Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter and Carl Brandon Strehlke, Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), p. 190ff.
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 6,757 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.