File:English - Annunciation - Walters 27309.jpg
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Annunciation ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annunciation |
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English: Due to its plentiful supply, beautiful translucent tone, and soft texture that made it easy to carve, alabaster was commonly used for English relief sculpture in the 14th and 15th centuries. Many of the reliefs that survive today are panels from altarpieces of the Passion of Christ or the Life of the Virgin. The altarpieces were not very expensive and were made for both local use and export to the continent by workshops in Nottingham, near where the alabaster was quarried. They were generally painted, and traces of pigment are often visible today. See also Walters 27.310 and 27.308.
This Annunciation would have been the first narrative panel of an altarpiece dedicated to the Joys of the Virgin. The Assumption (Walters 27.8) is from the same series. The imagery includes an adoring angel, God the Father blessing Christ's conception, and a lily (symbolizing the Virgin's purity) surrounded by a scroll that was once painted with Gabriel's salutation to Mary. |
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between circa 1450 and circa 1490 date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (Late Medieval) |
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Medium | alabaster, traces of paint | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 41 × 26.4 × 4.2 cm (16.1 × 10.3 × 1.6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
27.309 |
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Place of creation | Nottingham, England, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibition history | The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1962. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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