Devotional Plaquette with the Annunciation
Plaquettes hung above an owner's bed for devotional purposes were called "images de chevet," or bedside images. Here, Mary is interrupted at her prayers by Archangel Gabriel whose banner records his greeting "Av[e] Maria" (Hail Mary). The lilies are a traditional symbol of M...
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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7
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Medieval European
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