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Перевод: annunciation

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возвещение; объявление
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Тезаурус:

1. The problem is that for many centuries there were a number of variant systems in which the year of grace began at different times - 1 January, Christmas Day, the Annunciation, Easter Day, and 1, 24 and 29 September.
2. The next altar on the right holds Petr Brandl's Annunciation to Joachim and Anna; notice the fine treatment of the still-life on the right of the canvas.
3. The Annunciation
4. The elongated figures of Bartholomeus Spranger are well illustrated in his Resurrection, while the more etherial work of Hans von Aachen may be appreciated in his Annunciation of 1613.
5. In a poem continually relating Christian religion to fertility ritual Eliot's painted annunciation hints at the most primitive rites not only in its "nimbus" but also in its drought-stricken landscape, where "The wilderness is cracked and browned.,
6. However, during the Middle Ages 1 January lost favour against a start date of the feast of the Annunciation (25 March), the main reason no doubt being the Church's wish to underline its pre-eminence by using one of its own major festivals to mark the inauguration of each year.
7. Depictions of the Annunciation show her alone.
8. instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year, and this led to the adoption of 25 March, nine months before Christmas, although this choice was by no means universal.
9. Dionysius' cycle of the year began with 25 March, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
10. Samuel Pepys, the noted diarist who died in 1703, dated his journals on the basis of the Annunciation, but invariably noted 1 January as "New Year".
11. Gabriel, the messenger of the Annunciation, had been an angel of life and joy; but the angel of death was a familiar and sombre concept in Christianity, as in Judaism and Islam.
12. On the first tier are the figures of Adam and Eve, while on the second a fine relief of Christ's birth is flanked by figures of the Annunciation, the presentation at the Temple and the Magi.
13. It is worth seeing for its two marble medallions which show the Annunciation, with the angel on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right, the work of Agostino Busti.