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The Annunciation (Sergiev Posad)

Gabriel greets Mary as one highly favored and tells her she will bring forth the Son of the Most High (Luke 1). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.

The Annunciation (Sergiev Posad) 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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