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Zebo da Firenze miniatore Annunciation 1405

Parisian Book of HoursBritish Library

Zebo da Firenze miniatore Annunciation 1405Parisian Book of Hours British Library

Annunciation (as the hunt of the Unicorn)Friesach

Hortus conclusus 

is both an emble-

matic attribute 

and a title of the Virgin Mary in 

Medieval and Renais-sance poetry

and art, suddenly

appearing in paintings and manuscript

illuminati-ons about 1330 

Medieval artwork often depicted the Annunciation

with Mary seated in an enclosed garden, a unicorn

leaping into her lap. The Angel Gabriel blows a hunting horn and is

accompanied by hounds. The Virgin Mary has long been associated with the "enclosed garden" of the

Song of Songs. The hounds chase the unicorn into the lap of the Virgin. Ancient

myths about unicorns claimed that only a virgin

could tame them. This depiction was popular in the fifteenth century and fell out of use after the

Council of Trent

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The Annunciation, Anonymous, c. 1550 Rijksmuseum

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) Angel from the Annunciation to the Virgin, Rijksmuseum

Adriaen Van De Velde (Dutch, 1636 - 1672) The Annunciation, Rijksmuseum

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Yakov Kapkov (Russian, 1816 -

1854) The Annunciation Icon

1852 State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow

Aleksandr Ivanov (1806–1858) Annunciation 1850

Prince Gregory Gagarin (1810-1893) Annunciation

Alessandro Gatani, 1912

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

Sound: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater (L'Arpeggiata) Valer Sabadus & Philippe Jaroussky 2017