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The Meeting at the Golden Gate

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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The apocryphal subject of the reunion of Joachim and Anna, with the help of the Angel Gabriel, signifies the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary. The iconography is unusual, since normally Anna emerges from the Golden Gate of Jerusalem to meet Joachim on his return from the mountains. The animals and birds may incorporate references to Psalm 42. This painting was probably painted c.1440–1445 as part of the predella of an altarpiece and it has been conjecturally associated with 'The Annunciation', now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Meeting at the Golden Gate

Date

c. 1440–1445

Medium

tempera & gilding on panel

Measurements

H 21.9 x W 49.7 cm

Accession number

WA1850.8

Acquisition method

Fox-Strangways Gift, 1850

Work type

Painting

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