Hans Memling, 1480 - The Annunciation - fine art print

Summary of the over 540 year-old artpiece

This more than 540 year-old artpiece titled The Annunciation was created by the Dutch artist Hans Memling. The original had the following size: 30 1/8 x 21 1/2 in (76,5 x 54,6 cm) and was crafted with the medium oil on panel, transferred to canvas. The artpiece forms part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (public domain). In addition to that, the artpiece has the following creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Hans Memling was a male Netherlandish from the Netherlands, whose artistic style can be attributed primarily to Northern Renaissance. The Northern Renaissance artist was born in the year 1430 in Seligenstadt, Hessen state, Germany and passed away at the age of 64 in 1494.

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Memling modeled this Annunciation on the left wing of Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Columba Altarpiece (now in Munich), but his innovative rendition portrays the Virgin swooning and supported by two angels, rather than kneeling. Like other fifteenth-century Flemish painters working in the wake of Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling cloaked religious imagery in the pictorial language of everyday life, paying close attention to naturalistic detail. This Annunciation takes place in a comfortably appointed bedchamber, though many of the domestic furnishings have symbolic connotations. The carafe of water, through which light passes uncorrupted, and the vase of lilies are symbols of the Virgin's purity, while the empty candleholder signifies her imminent role as bearer of Christ, light of the world. Gabriel's priestly garb alludes to the ritual of the Mass and, therefore, the incarnation of Christ. A soft glowing light falls on the Virgin and suffuses the room, elevating the scene from the realm of the ordinary and signaling the sacred nature of the drama.

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