A Visual Call to Prayer Fra Angelico, Annunciation,Fresco Painting.

 

• This fresco painting by Fra Angelico appears at the top of the stairs leading to the friar’s cells.

• Appropriately, Fra Angelico presented the scene of the Virgin Mary and and Archangel Gabriel with simplicity and serenity.
• The two figures appear in plain loggia, and the artist painted all the fresco elements with a pristine clarity.
• As an admonition to heed the devotional function of the images, he included a small inscription at the base of the image that reads “As you venerate, while passing before it, this figure of the intact Virgin, lest you omit to say to say a Hail Mary.”