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| | Telling Mary's story in art - Books - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | There is the Annunciation, the visit of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary to convey the news that she had been chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus. |
 | | Hundreds of these works, many of them among the most-admired and familiar in the whole of art history, are collected in the magnificent "Mary in Western Art," a new, coffee-table book by Monsignor Timothy Verdon, a canon at St. Mary of the Flowers, the cathedral in Florence, Italy. |
 | | The book's most recent art works include the 1970 "Annunciation" by Theodore Prescott, and "The Greeting," Bill Viola's video installation at the 1995 Venice Biennale, recreating the joyous meeting, recorded in the New Testament, between Mary, pregnant with Christ, and Elizabeth, pregnant with the child who would become John the Baptist. |
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