03 — ARTWORK
Detail of the façade
LORENZI, Stoldo di Gino · 1587 →
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CURRENT LOCATION · Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
The detail from the façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. displays an Annunciationthe term for the event described in the Gospel according to St. Luke, when the Angel Gabriel brings the Virgin Mary the news that she is to bear her son, Jesus Christ. The Annunciation was among the most widespread pictorial subjects of European art during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. and a Nativity by Stoldo Lorenzi, and below two statues of SibylsIn antiquity, women who could prophesy. The many Sibylline prophecies were kept in Rome and consulted by the Senate. In Christian legend, Sibyls foretold the Birth, Passion and Resurrection of Christ, just as the male prophets of the Bible did. Originally, in the period of classical antiquity, there was only one Sibyl; the number gradually rose to ten. In early Christianity it was further raised to 12, in analogy to the 12 prophets of the Old Testament., by Annibale Fontana.
The Latin inscription VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST reads in English "The divine word became flesh".
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