Artifact · Authenticated · National Gallery, London (museum location)
Crivelli, Annunciation with Saint Emidius
A flash from a ring in the sky strikes the Virgin through a hole in the wall. Crivelli painted it in 1486.
1486
Crivelli painted a flash of light from a ring in the sky in 1486. Why do some old religious symbols look so modern to us?
Photo: Carlo Crivelli, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons