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The Annunciation
1480–1489 · Oil on panel, transferred to canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
For the Annunciation · 25 March
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A glass carafe of water stands on the cupboard, and beside it a candlestick holds no candle. Gabriel kneels in a red and gold cope, hand raised, and the Dove, the Holy Spirit, hangs in a ring of gold above Our Lady. Hans Memling does not let her kneel: she sways, one hand on her breast, and two angels bear her up, which S. N. Blum reads as Mary overcome by the Incarnation at the instant it occurs. In that room the Word is made flesh. The Met notes that Gabriel wears an ecclesiastical cope, as one assisting at a Mass, and that the eagle worked into it points to John's Gospel. Blum reads the empty candleholder as Mary, bearer of Christ, the light of the world, and the carafe as purity conceiving without loss. The lilies stand in their jug, and her other hand keeps the page.
Sources: Blum, S.N. (1992). Hans Memling's Annunciation with Angelic Attendants. Metropolitan Museum Journal, 27, pp. 43-58. · Gabriel wears an ecclesiastical cope, assists (not celebrates) a Mass; eagle emblem on his vestment alludes to John's Gospel, the Word made flesh · No patron, church, chapel, or altar is documented for this panel; no commission is recorded in the sources
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)