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The Annunciation (Festal Tier)

The angel Gabriel comes to Mary and announces that she will conceive and bear a son, and she answers, Be it unto me according to your word (Luke 1). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.

The Annunciation (Festal Tier) by Andrei Rublev depicting Luke 1:26
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Depicted passages

Luke 1:26-38Primary
Portrait of Andrei Rublev

About Andrei Rublev

1360-1430 · Russian

Andrei Rublev was a medieval Russian iconographer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Surviving works attributed to him include the Hospitality of Abraham (the icon often called the "Old Testament Trinity") and the festal tier of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1405).

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