They depict the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel told Mary she would bear God's son.
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In upper Manhattan, parent Gary Gutierrez dropped his three children off at Annunciation School on Tuesday.
Nearly five centuries after it was painted, "The Annunciation" became the focus of a battle between the Hermitage Museum in St.
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Sahfe's Shihab al-Din mosque was established as a triumphalist mosque adjacent to the Church of the Annunciation in the lead up to the millennium.
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Safhe returned the favor by interrupting Pope John Paul II's homily at the Church of the Annunciation during his March 2000 visit with a call to prayer.
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But Andrew Mellon, the U.S. secretary of the Treasury, bought "The Annunciation" with 20 other Hermitage paintings before locking them away in a basement near his Washington home.
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Why did van Eyck set his "Annunciation" in a church?
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And the fact that the financial year obstinately holds off until April marks the fact that Christ was born on 25 December, and therefore conceived on 25 March, the Feast of the Annunciation.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace but there are problems in Nazareth because the Israeli Government has given Moslems permission to build a mosque yards from the Basilica of the Annunciation.
Newly cleaned works are among the other highlights here, for example the spectacular Hans Memling "The Annunciation" (1465-75) and a ravishing Andrea del Sarto "The Holy Family With the Young Saint John the Baptist" (c. 1528 or 1529).
The mystery of pregnancy and the heroism of Lindbergh combined to give a distinction bordering on the divine to my very own mother, for whom nothing less than a global annunciation had accompanied the incarnation of her first child.
Beauty in its traditional sense is profoundly important to him some of his favorite artworks include the Annunciation altarpiece by the early Renaissance master Simone Martini (created for the Siena Cathedral, but now in Florence's Uffizi Gallery), the paintings of the English Pre-Raphaelites, and the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
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