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Fra Angelico - actually Guido of Pietro, lived from about 1390 – 1455 in Italy and was a painter the Italian early Renaissance. his image Verkündigung the Diocesan Museum Cortona let's look more closely now.
The picture shows two scenes. The one in the foreground in the portico and another left in the background. we stay once at the main scene in the foreground, the events in the portico.
Maria perched on a related with precious brocades armchair. Your sky blue, floor-length union is open in the region from neck to bosom, so that the red undergarment and the result before the chest humble crossed arms are visible. The picture is, to on the background, in bright colors held – this is shall einen joyous representing moment. As the face of Maria looks partly to the viewer, our view is captured from their eyes. Mary invites us into history, while at the same time but also looks at the angel, the, of a flower meadow Coming, in comes from the left in the portico. long strides, the inclined upper body forward, the sumptuously dressed Gottesbote occurs powerful and invigorating to Mary and bends easily the knee in front of her and looks at her. Both meet “at eye level” and bow to each other to. Eine very interesting presentation, because often looks man Maria in this scene ashamed on the ground look or the Engel coming even from behind, all so, als wool is Maria invaded or is approaches themselves from above one Maria something instill.
Fra Angelico, however, shows us the proclamation of Mary as a meeting face to face. Both, Mary and the angel, look into my eyes and bow to each other at the same time, while the right hand of the angel to her heart, the place of love, points. A portrait of respect and reverence for each other, connected to the open look for one another as an expression of inner connectedness.
On the right thigh of Mary is an open book, in which she has probably just read. It corresponds to the figure of the prophet Isaiah, which is visible above the center pillar in a round medallion and looks down to speak, Maria. Mary holds her hands clasped over her heart, how to recognize, that in this moment of great joy knowledge flares up in it, so they have to keep themselves. She considers herself, because they still can not understand properly, what is promised to you there.
Because in these words of Isaiah announced the birth of the Messiah long time ago: “See, the virgin shall be with child, She will bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (Yes 7,14)
The picture radiates an inner calm and balance – yes harmony. This reached the painter by the image structure in the form of an isosceles triangle. The angel and his words form the lower edge – Maria, Isa in the medallion and the angel of the common vertices.
Furthermore, in the second, partially opposed, to recognize isosceles triangle. It is through the head of the angel, the medallion of Isaiah and symbolized as a dove in the Golden Glory St.. Spirit on the head of Mary floating, educated. God's Word is proclaimed through the prophets and through the angel in human reality.
The clothing of the characters highlights the events. Maria wears an red robe. Red as the color of love and blood stands for humanity. Her blue coat with the color of the sky enveloping. The color blue symbolizes the one hand the valuable, she was difficult in the old days, expensive and complicated to obtain, such as Lapslazuli from northeastern Afghanistan. On the other hand, they linked Divine, Heavenly and earthly. She is the mediator of the people of God's presence, it becomes the color of faith and loyalty. The blue jacket represents their connection with God and prayer. considered man both To dye together, so demonstrate they, dass themselves Maria in God and Man to encounter.
The robe of the angel is artfully decorated and decorated entirely in pink and gold. Rosa, the color of innocence and divine love, or gold as a color of the sun. the divine light refers to the divine origin of the angel. Its wings point to the ease and his non-material phenomenon. Hence the nature of the angel is expressed – Despite his presence, he is imperceptible to all. Likewise, it is also carrier of the Divine Light, what the painter suggests a slight glimmer of light to the angels around.
Behind the main angel a mysterious door cutout can be seen, which is covered by a curtain of the same color as Mary's undergarment. This can be seen as a symbolic allusion to the mystery of the virginal conception, because even on them the angel points with his left hand. However, his posture can also be understood as a reference to a secret, the worth preserving.
Let us conclude by the second scene in the picture on the top left to. One notices, like an angel standing in front of a brightly lit Gate, in his right hand a flaming sword, placed his left hand on a man's shoulder, the stunned holds his hands to his face. Next to him a woman, desperately with the same desperate expression. The way the couple goes on rocky path downhill, into darkness, past pointed, prickly plants. It is the expulsion from paradise as the contrast happening to the foreground. The painter, the lost and the broken of the people in the background and assigns the liberation and salvation in the foreground. The, which at that time in the past “went wrong” is, will be made up for in the foreground by the angel and Mary. By the willingness of Mary, to receive the redeemer, the process is reversed, the path can go back toward Paradise, is like the gaze of Mary faces the Angels.
The image can be interpreted so now, that each individual through his faults and weaknesses, has lost his failure in the past his innocence. At the same time germinates in the encounter with God in every new life, caused by the incarnation of God in Mary.
A song from the Marie 6. Century summarizes this relationship between Eve and Mary in the following words:
Hello, through you radiate the joy;
Hello, through you the curse vanishes.
Hello, the fallen Adam you judge again;
Hello, her tears redeemed you Eva.
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