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...circumscribed foreground space, there is a cloistral hush that is completely monastic. The half-genuflecting angel, splendid with great, backswept polychrome wings and raised hand, recites the sentence inscribed in gold from St. Luke: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee." The Virgin, in a gesture of untroubled acceptance, replies simply: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word...
Contentment with Little. Such paintings as the Annunciation, endlessly copied, made Fra Angelico's reputation. They established the figure of the angel in the form that still seems most appropriate for religious art, and even today the Annunciation is rated by former Louvre Curator Germain Bazin as "no doubt the most perfect of all Fra Angelico's works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being...
...works that most succeeding generations have echoed and are likely to repeat: "It is an unspeakable delight to regard them, for it appears that the spirits of the blessed in heaven cannot be otherwise than these . . . The entire coloring appears to be the work of a saint or an angel like themselves. Right well did this holy friar deserve the name by which he was always known, Fra Giovanni Angelico...
...them echoed Author Keyes's own womanly questions about the saint: "Did she hear the 'good tidings of great joy' . . . from some kindly neighbor who came back to Nazareth before Mary and Joseph? . . . Did Jesus spend much time with her in the little house where the angel had announced His coming? Did she invite John to stay there, too, so that the small cousins would be company for each other? Was it she who taught Jesus to read?" Author Keyes decided to search out the answers, and the result is just published: St. Anne, Grandmother...
...grace) written in gold letters. She grew up and married a young man known as Joachim, whose name had an equally propitious meaning-"Preparation for the Saviour." Legend tells how Joachim was rebuked by the high priest for his childlessness after many years of marriage, then visited by an angel who foretold the birth of Mary, who was to be Mother of the Lord...