A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 205
ische Gruss; Jial. LAn- ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 187 nuiiciazione, La B. Vergine Annunziata). In addition to the Gos-pel account of this event, artists have been influenced by legends.One relates that as Mary Avent forth at evening to draw water, sheheard a voice Avhich said, Hail, thou that art full of… … (J. Van Eyck.) A-nnunciation. book of Isaiah, and as she read the verse, Behold, a Virgin shallconceive and bear a son, she thought within herself, How blessedthe woman of whom these Avords are-written ! Would I might bebut her handmaid to serve her, and allowed to kiss her feet! Andinstantly the…
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