
Hand-carved wood, home-made gesso, water-based natural pigments, piñon-resin varnish.
30 in. x 24 in. x 17 in.A representation of the archangel Gabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she is to bear the Son of God by virtue of her pure and righteous state. A white dove representing the Holy Spirit who is about to miraculously impregnate the Virgin appears somewhere in the composition, often descending on the Virgin.