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| Image title: | Ecce Ancilla Domini |
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| Source: | unknown: “Days With the Victorian Poets” (1910) |
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| Keywords: | religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, colour |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And supreme patience. From her mother’s knee Faithful and hopeful; wise in charity; Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect.
So held she through her girlhood; as it were An angel-watered lily, that near God Grows and is quiet. Till, one dawn at home She woke in her white bed, and had no fear At all,—yet wept till sunshine, and felt awed; Because the fulness of the time was come.
It is another incongruity of the versatile genis of Rossetti, that one of his most successful pictures should bealmost colourless in comparison with the rest. His Annunciation or Ecce Ancilla Domini as he named it, is a study of purity almost unique in its dignity and restraing. “The white daub” was his own name for this masterpiece, which for very very many years found no purchaser, and drew down such “a nice derangement of epitaphs” from this principal art critics as might have fatally discouraged a less indomitable man at the very outset of his career. |
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| Artist: | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) |
| Scanner dpi: | 1800 |
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