MAKE A MEME View Large Image English - Annunciation - Walters 27309.jpg Due to its plentiful supply beautiful translucent tone and soft texture that made it easy to carve alabaster was commonly used for English relief sculpture in the 14th and 15th centuries Many of ...
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Keywords: English - Annunciation - Walters 27309.jpg Due to its plentiful supply beautiful translucent tone and soft texture that made it easy to carve alabaster was commonly used for English relief sculpture in the 14th and 15th centuries Many of the reliefs that survive today are panels from altarpieces of the Passion of Christ or the Life of the Virgin The altarpieces were not very expensive and were made for both local use and export to the continent by workshops in Nottingham near where the alabaster was quarried They were generally painted and traces of pigment are often visible today See also Walters 27 310 and 27 308 This Annunciation would have been the first narrative panel of an altarpiece dedicated to the Joys of the Virgin The Assumption Walters 27 8 is from the same series The imagery includes an adoring angel God the Father blessing Christ's conception and a lily symbolizing the Virgin's purity surrounded by a scroll that was once painted with Gabriel's salutation to Mary ca 1450 1490 Late Medieval alabaster traces of paint cm 41 26 4 4 2 accession number 27 309 24009 In the Chateau de Bruniquel Tarn et Garonne France Mme d'Ouvrier de Villyby Paris by purchase Ferdinand Schutz Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 place of origin Nottingham England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Gothic art in the United Kingdom Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review English medieval alabasters
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