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Description: | In a domestic interior with chequer-pattern floor, the Virgin stands to the right of a prie-dieu, left. She wears a long, enveloping robe, has long wavy tresses that reach to her elbows, and clasps her hands in an attitude of prayer. The Angel Gabriel approaches from the right, and is dressed in a long white robe, with a green cope, lined in red, and joined at the breastbone with a large jewelled clasp of a yellow metal. In his left hand, the Angel holds a sceptre, the right hand is raised in a gesture of greeting. He also has long hair, in which he wears a circlet of pearls with a jewel surmounted by a cross in the centre. Between the two figures is an ovoid vase with several stems of flowering lilies. Behind the Virgin is a canopied bed, the draperies of which are being drawn back by a diminutive angel. To the right of the Virgin's head is a white dove, linked by a tiny infant carrying a crucifix to an image of God the Father shown blessing, and in clouds, upper right. | Subjects: | religion (Annunciation) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Coffermans, Marcellus (Netherlandish painter, active 1549, died after 1575) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8758... | Go to resource |
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