The Annunciation
The angel Gabriel comes to Mary at Nazareth and tells her she will bear a son and call his name Jesus, the Son of the Most High (Luke 1). An oil on copper by the Danish painter Carl Bloch (1879).
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About Carl Heinrich Bloch
1834-1890 · Danish
Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter best known for the 23-painting cycle on the life of Christ commissioned for the Chapel of Frederiksborg Castle (1865–1879). His warmly lit, intimate scenes are among the most widely reproduced devotional images of the 19th century.