The Annunciation (Memling)

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The Annunciation
Hans Memling , around 1480
oil
76.5 × 54.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

The Annunciation is an oil painting created around 1480 and attributed to the Dutch painter Hans Memling . It shows the biblical scene of the “ Annunciation of the Lord ” to Mary . It is now in the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.

description

The picture shows the Virgin Mary in an interior room, two angels as servants, the Archangel Gabriel in precious chasubles and a floating dove. The painting extends the Annunciation wing of the Columba Altar by Rogier van der Weyden , which was completed around 1455.

Annunciation

Robert Campin : “Annunciation” (part of the Mérode Altar , around 1420). Conventional imagery in the representation of the hearth and a flower vase

The Annunciation was a popular subject in European art, despite the difficulties involved in depicting Mary's union with Christ when she became the "tabernacle" for the Word made flesh. Mary as the Mother of God was dogmatized in the Council of Ephesus in 431, two decades later the doctrine of incarnation was proclaimed: Christ possessed a dual nature - and Mary's permanent virginity was enshrined in 631 at the Lateran Council. In Byzantine art, scenes of the Annunciation depict Mary on the throne in royal robes and with royal attributes. Later she appeared in closed rooms, a temple, a church, a garden.

classification

In the opinion of art historian Maryan Ainsworth, the work is "an astonishingly original picture, full of connotations for the viewer or worshiper".

literature

• Maryan Ainsworth : "Hans Memling: The Annunciation" . In: From Van Eyck to Bruegel. Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-87099-870-6 .
• Shirley Neilsen Blum: "Hans Memling's 'Annunciation' with Angelic Attendants" . In: Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal . Volume 27, 1992, ISSN  0077-8958 , pp. 43-58 .

Web links

Commons : Mariae Annunciation by Hans Memling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Memling's "The Annunciation"

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Annunciation. 1465-75. on metmuseum.org (similar picture from Memling).
2. ^ Shirley Neilsen Blum: Hans Memling's 'Annunciation' with Angelic Attendants . In: Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal . Volume 27, 1992, ISSN  0077-8958 , pp. 52 .
3. ^ Shirley Neilsen Blum: Hans Memling's 'Annunciation' with Angelic Attendants . In: Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal . Volume 27, 1992, ISSN  0077-8958 , pp. 53 .
4. ^ Maryan Ainsworth : "Hans Memling: The Annunciation" . In: From Van Eyck to Bruegel. Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-87099-870-6 , pp. 118 .