Church of St Michael & All Angels, London Fields

            The Annunciation 

The angel in this mural is the Archangel Gabriel who came to tell Mary that she would bear the Son of God. Like most of the other angels in these murals, Gabriel is dressed in a translucent garment which suggests that the artist may have sketched the bodies of the angels and those of some other figures such as Mary in the Nativity before painting over their clothes. Mary is dressed in her traditional colour of blue.

Hayward harks back to the traditions of Byzantine iconography and early Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation. Gabriel carries his stave of office in his left hand and Mary is alone. She has been reading but now kneels to show that she consents to God’s will. The architecture of the building where they meet reflects the Byzantine assumption that perspective and realism as we know it today are a distraction from the religious import of the image. Thus both the red tiled roof of the house and the black and white tiled interior floor are simultaneously presented to us. Between Gabriel and the Mother of God, the Holy Spirit appears, again in the shape of a dove, signalling the divine conception (Luke 1.26-38).

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London (show map)

Taken on: April 14, 2018

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