The Cleveland Museum Of Art: The Annunciation By Bout

The Cleveland Museum of art has a major collection of works from Italy, roman, Egyptian, and African art. Also, the great collection of earthly painting, religious painting and sculptures go back to Ancient Rome and Greece. Various forms of art can be individual from other collection such as sculpture, portraits, and earthly, religious paintings. The Annunciation, by Bouts at the Cleveland museum of art falls into the category of religious art. The artist that made this painting, Albert Bouts, is a specialized painter that used oil on panels. The painting was completed in the 1480s and is uses the medium of oil on wood, this painting has the appearance of a smooth canvas. The artist sets the scene in a room of chapel with décor and furnishings
He’s specialized in small devotional paintings for a ready market in Antwerp and other Flemish cities. He created many works of art, most of which are religious paintings. Some of his works include St. John the Baptist and Christ as the Man of Sorrow. Christ with the Crown of Thorns, and Madonna and Child. His rich and complex iconographical elements create a heightened sense of contemporary beliefs and spiritual ideals, morally the works express a fearful outlook, combined with a respect for restraint and stoicism. The paintings above all emphasis the spiritual over the earthly. Because the cult of Mary was at an apex at the time, iconographic elements related to the Life of Mary vastly predominate. The first generation of Netherlandish painters were preoccupied with making religious symbols more
She said “I am not married, how I will I be pregnant without marriage.” The angel said “From the Holy Spirit”. Laying open on here prie-dieu is a book of hours, similar to illuminated book that can be seen in nearby galleries. The artist sets the scene in a room with décor and furnishings familiar to viewers of his time. The lilies symbolize the virgin’s purity, and the Orange on the window sill a symbol of chastity, believed by some to be the fruit of paradise-her role as the new eve. The small size of the panel suggests that it was used for private devotions, and also prized as a highly finished collector’s item. The Annunciation scene would place emphasis on its sacramental and communal