Virgin Mary from the Annunciation

Painting

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Virgin Mary from the Annunciation

Entry/Object ID

2005.02.108

Description

Tempera painting on curved wooden panel with rounded top and bottom bordered in red and light brown. The central image features the Virgin alone looking to the left with both hands lifted to her chest. She's clothed in green dress with red veil and cloak detailed with gold lining. She has a gold leaf halo rimmed in red. She stands in a room with a green archway against red walls. A Church Slavonic caption sits on the walls under the arch.

Type of Painting

Panel

Artwork Details

Medium

Tempera

Collection

Betsy Scheuring Icon Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2005.02

Source or Donor

Betsy Scheuring

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Betsy Scheuring

Made/Created

Date made

1850 - 1875

Place

* Untyped Place

Central Russia

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Icon

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Symbol, Religious

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Religious Objects

Nomenclature Class

Ceremonial Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

19-1/4 in

Width

9-3/4 in

Depth

1-1/4 in

Exhibition

Spirit Made Tangible: The Scheuring Icon Collection (2006)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

This is one part of a two-panel scene depicting the Annunciation, in which the Archangel Gabriel informs the Virgin that she will bear the future son of God. Standing in an interior setting, the Virgin has been practicing her devotions, as an open book on a nearby table indicates along with her raised hands. The tall, slender woman is framed by a columned doorway from which a curtain hangs, and she appears in nearly the same scale as the surrounding, refined architecture. The form of the Virgin’s drapery compares with other images of her (see 2005.02.016). This icon and the now-missing companion piece probably were shown together on an iconostasis.