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 Bible Art

Virgin Annunciate
Artist: Antonello da Messina
 1473    Painting

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Virgin Annunciate is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation. 

Virgin of the Rocks
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
 1483-86    Painting

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This painting presents the Madonna, with infant versions of Christ and John the Baptist, and the archangel Gabriel. Like other Renaissance artists, Leonardo was interested in presenting proverbial religious narratives in a more naturalistic way. Here Leonardo's animate quartet sits amidst a mystical landscape that demonstrates his mathematical approach to picture perspective. Complementing the intimate group in the foreground, the scenery of desolate rocks and still water lends the narrative a dreamlike quality, infusing the scene at once with a sense of the heavenly and the human (a blurring, in other words, of the spiritual with the material). 

This work is oil on wood transferred to canvas. It is housed in the  Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.