ÿþ <html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>DANIEL MITSUI ~ ANNUNCIATION DRAWING</title> <style type="text/css"> .style1 {font-family: Times; font-size: 40px; color: #aaaaaa;} .style2 {font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; color: #aaaaaa;} </style> </head><body leftmargin="150" rightmargin="150" topmargin="100" text="#aaaaaa" vlink="#aaaaaa" bgcolor="#000000" link="#aaaaaa" marginheight="100" marginwidth="150"><header></header> <center> <span class="style1">ANNUNCIATION DRAWING<br>by DANIEL MITSUI</span><br> <span class="style2">danmitsui [at] hotmail [dot] com<br><br><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/religious.html">return to religious art</a></span> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/avemaria.jpg"><img src="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/web_avemaria.jpg" border="0" alt="ANNUNCIATION DRAWING" /></a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/avemaria_detail.jpg"><img src="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/web_avemaria_detail.jpg" border="0" alt="DETAIL" /></a> <br><br><i>Click above for larger images.</i> <br><br></center> This illuminated page of the Angelic Salutation was based on several late mediaeval illuminated manuscripts. The picture of the Annunciation combines elements from two famous works by the Brothers Limbourg: the <i>Tr&egrave;s Riches Heures</i> and the <i>Belles Heures</i>, both made for the Duke of Berry in the early 15th century. <br><br> The large roundels in the border depict events that are theologically linked to the Annunciation in Catholic exegetical, liturgical and iconographic tradition. Mary's <i>Ave</i> is the undoing of <i>Eva</i>'s disobedience; the Burning Bush before Moses, the Flowering of Aaron's Rod and the Miracle of Gideon's Fleece prefigure the Virginal Conception in the Old Testament. <br><br> The border uses sea kelp, chambered nautili, starfish, anemones and sand dollars as decorative elements. <br><br /><br /> <center> <span class="style2">all works (c) Daniel Mitsui<span> </center></body></html>