The Annunciation Angel from an Annunciation group, On a piece of land the angel kneels to the right on one knee, has the right hand forward and holds a spell band in the left. His lush curly hair falls over the shoulders, his gaze is slightly raised, the mouth opened briefly, making the tongue visible. He wears a choir shirt over an amict, the sleeve of which is folded back at the end and a belt around the waist. The choir hood, closed in front of the chest with an agrafe, has a kapoets, which ends in a ball with a tassel decorated with godrons. The toes of the left foot emerge under the choir shirt, under the frills of the choir mantle that blows up from behind, that of the right foot. Painted on the spell band: AVE MAR [IA]). The hem of the cloak shows a painted three-pass motif, the Archangel Gabriel, the Annunciation: Mary kneeling, Tilman Riemenschneider, Würzburg, c. 1485 - c. 1487, alabaster (mineral), gilding, h 39.5 cm × w 40.5 cm
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