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IRELAND : AUGUST 15th + BELFAST 1969
August 15th - Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary, a Catholic Day of Obligation and celebrated with special masses throughout the island. It is especially busy at the
Marian Shrine in Knock (County Mayo).
Painting Ecce Ancilla Domini(The Annunciation)
was painted by Dante Gabriel Rossettiin 1849 .
Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artistssuch as
Botticelli (1445-1510)and Fra Angelico (1387-1455),
Rossetti sought in this work
a radical reinterpretation
of the Annunciation.
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An Afriican American painter
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation, 1898. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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