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Christian over at Smaller Manhattans has an interesting post<\/a> about Annunciation paintings. He goes through and explicates the Isenheim altarpiece and picks up some interesting points that are packed into the picture.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re sharing Annunciations, to the left is one of my favorites. But Van Eyck, Gabriel looks so happy, and see the dove descending\u2013so small and pure? And the whole thing takes place in a gothic church.<\/p>\n

See the robes of Gabriel? So celestial and so crystal clear and real\u2013as if the artist knows that it is the spiritual realm which is hard as diamonds and more real than this physical realm.<\/p>\n

See how the artist catches a supernatural luminosity in the whole painting. It is as if these characters transcend their physicality and the whole dialogue is infused with supernatural grace\u2013as it is. So the form and the content are one. The painting\u2013as the blessed Virgin\u2013is \u2018full of grace\u2019.<\/p>\n

However the treatment of light in the painting is not superficial as it is in impressionistic works. We are not studying the play of light on the surface of the material world. Instead this painter captures the essence of the light within. Study again the light in the two faces. They are like jewels.<\/p>\n

Remember what Therese affirms: \u201cIn heaven each grain of dust will be a diamond.\u201d Then remember your own destiny in Christ is to be a child of the light and remember what the priest poet Hopkins writes, in Nature is a Heraclitean Fire: <\/a>\u201cI am all at once what Christ is, \u2018 since he was what I am, and\u00a0This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, \u2018 patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, \u00a0Is immortal diamond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian over at Smaller Manhattans has an interesting post about Annunciation paintings. He goes through and explicates the Isenheim altarpiece and picks up some interesting points that are packed into the picture. While we\u2019re sharing Annunciations, to the left is one of my favorites. But Van Eyck, Gabriel looks so happy, and see the dove […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAnnunciations and Angels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christian over at Smaller Manhattans has an interesting post about Annunciation paintings. 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