Leven en de passie van Christus en van de maagd Maria

The Virgin Mary sits in a domestic interior, interrupted from reading by the winged Archangel Gabriel who points toward a divine light. Above them, the Holy Spirit descends as a dove within a break in the clouds, casting rays of light toward Mary. The room contains a large canopied bed, a spinning wheel, and a table with a single candle and an apple.

This print utilizes a specific typological prophecy from Jeremiah 31:22 to frame the Annunciation as a cosmic mystery of the 'new thing' created on earth. Aegidius Sadeler was a pivotal figure in the intellectual and artistic circles of Rudolfine Prague, where religious imagery often intersected with Mannerist interests in paradox and divine hiddenness.