On the Incarnation #14

from the Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei by St. Athanasius

The Trinity Sends St. Gabriel to Announce to Mary the Incarnation, Pietro Novelli, Il Monrealese

You know what happens when a portrait that has been painted on a panel becomes liberated through external stains. The artist does not throw away the panel, but the subject of the portrait has to come and sit for it again, and then the likeness is re-drawn on…