The audacity of Christian Art: So near and yet so far: Visions and thresholds | National Gallery

Part of the challenge of depicting Christ lies in showing his 'visibility' as a man who lived on earth, while also indicating the 'invisibility' of God eternal. This episode looks at 'The Virgin and Child with Two Angels' by Andrea del Verrocchio and Lorenzo di Credi (around 1476-8) and 'The Vision of the Blessed Gabrielle' by Carlo Crivelli (probably about 1489), and considers the pictorial devic

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