The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter
Hans Memling. It depicts the Annunciation, the archangel Gabriel's
announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the
mother of Jesus, described in the Gospel of Luke. The iconography
focuses on the Virgin's purity. Her swoon foreshadows the crucifixion of
Jesus, and the painting emphasizes her role as mother, bride, and Queen
of Heaven. The painting was executed in the 1480s. It was discovered in
the early 19th century on an estate of the Radziwiłł family, in whose
collection it might have been since the 16th century. It was purchased
by the banker Philip Lehman in 1920, was transferred to canvas from its
original oak panel sometime after 1928, and is today part of the Robert
Lehman collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1847
the art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen described the panel as one of
Memling's "finest and most original works".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation_%28Memling%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1891:
Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders
of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel
district in the East End of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders>
1961:
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what
they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug
encased within (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
radiogram:
1. (telegraphy, historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a
telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio
rather than by transmission cables”)”)
2. (radio, historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record
player that incorporates a radio receiver”) [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radiogram>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must not forget that in our country are evangelists and
zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions
whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified
into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and
dangerous.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>
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