Vittore Carpaccio - The Annunciation. 1480 - 1500

George Lawrence Bulleid (British, 1858-1933) The Annunciation, n.d.

The Annunciation // Angelos Panagiotou

— 1986. oil on canvas

John William Waterhouse - The Annunciation, 1914.

“The Annunciation (detail),” (1914) by John William Waterhouse

Source: Wikimedia Commons

I am the angel G̷̼̙̮̱̰͇͙̦͎͂͗̽͆̅̃a̵̧̜͔͚̪̠͕͓̪̾͑̐̄̊̀͆̄̉͘͜͜ͅb̸͔̘̠̲͓̟̜͙̺̫͖͙̥̞̒́̔̌̎̍̄̍͂̀̕͜ŗ̴̯̺̺͇͕͈͍̦͈͍̲͉͝ͅỉ̷̡̥̹̠͓͕̣̔̍̐̅͗͂́̃́͛̉͗͂̕ͅe̷̡̨͇̘̰͖͚̹̪͔͕̩̮̅̄͝l̵̛̛̯͙̜͔̣͉͊̍͆͛̎͌͒͒̾̒̓̕͝! I have come to bring good news

The Annunciation by Sidney Harold Meteyard

Fra Angelico (Italy 1395-1455)

The Annunciation 

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Rogier van der Weyden, The Annunciation, 1434 - Detail

Originally I wasn't going to post this anywhere, but everyone in the FAItH discord server has been super excited about it and said a lot of really kind things, so I decided to put it on here :)

L'Annonciation is a beautiful scene and I wanted to draw it from a different angle than you see in most paintings! I suffered over the wings but in the end I'm really proud of how it turned out.

Also thank you @nazkarcito for infodumping to me about older Byzantine icon paintings and sculpture.. it sustained me in the last hour or two of this (I spent seven hours on it at an absolutely ridiculous time of night/morning and then conked out)

Vittore Carpaccio - The Annunciation. Detail. 1480 - 1500

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682) The Annunciation, ca.1650 Museo Nacional del Prado

In the first image, we see a theme to which [Maurice] Denis will return again and again: the depiction of the Archangel Gabriel as a deacon bearing a book, almost as if Our Lady is the priest at the Solemn Mass to whom the book is being carried to her to kiss. In this very early depiction, painted when the artist was 19, he has even included a couple of acolytes bearing tapers. We something similar in this depiction ca. 1914, except that here the deacon-angel bows his head and raises his arms in a gesture of homage, while Our Lady bows her head in a reciprocal greeting. She is dressed as a bride.

One of my favorites is a depiction in which we see the familiar deacon-archangel holding a Gospel book, accompanied by the candlebearing acolytes, approaching the Blessed Virgin on what appears to be a rooftop terrace, with the sun streaming behind her (which is somewhat unconventional; usually the beam of light comes from across the scene from the other direction). The sublimity of the setting and its vertiginous perspective hint at the lofty grandeur of the miraculous conception.

Top Image: Mystère catholique, oil on canvas, 1890. Middle Image: Annonciation d'Assise, oil on canvas, 1914. Bottom Image: Annonciation à Fiesole, oil on canvas. Quotations by Peter Kwasniewski, "A Modern French Painter in Love With Our Lady: Maurice Denis' Remarkable Annunciation Paintings"

Carlos Schwabe - The Annunciation, 1897.

jay defeo. the annunciation. 1957/1959.

The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. Paolo de Matteis - 1712.