Slope #2: How’s the Annunciation doing these days?
[ by Charles Cameron — art historian manqué ]
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Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar, recently beatified. His Annunciation the San Marco convent in Florence is accordingly a work of devotion, free of irony {upper panel, below]:
The New Yorker’s current cartoon [lower panel, above] caption reads:
“I’m really excited about this opportunity, but I’m hoping there’s room to negotiate the title? What about ‘Rises-to-the-Occasion Mary,’ or ‘Cool-Under-Pressure Mary’?”
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That’s it.
