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Description: | This small panel of fine quality is executed in the style of the school of Amiens from the late fifteenth century. The depiction of an angel winging the scroll of the Annunciation bearing the inscription AVE MARIA PLENA DOMINUS' was a pictorial device used frequently by artists from other parts of France such as the Master of Moulins in The Annunciation of c. 1498-99 (back of triptych, Moulins Cathedral). Amiens had been a centre for manuscript illumination production since about 1250. At the time of the production of this work, the confraternity Puy d'Amiens', a literary society, commissioned many paintings dedicated to the worship of the Virgin Mary. The Angel of the Annunciation was probably influenced by the production of such paintings in the area. Most of the Puy' pictures have been destroyed, but the remaining ones have been recorded by copies in a manuscript of about 1517 at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. | Subjects: | religion (Annunciation) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8790... | Go to resource |
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