
Aingeal an t-Seanachaidh
Aingeal an t-Seanachaidh (Ag ainmeachadh aingeal) c17th Century by Italian Painter Carlo Dolci (1616 – 1686); bha e na pheantair aig an àm Baróc agus bha e ainmeil airson a chuid obair-ealain cràbhaidh àrd.

This portrait depicts the Archangel Gabriel with his wings as a child like figure of the Biblical story of the Annunciation, when Gabriel comes to the Mary and tells her that she will conceive a son through a virgin birth, and thus become the mother of Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah and son of GOD.
Gabriel is shown with his hands folded across his chest, with his head tilted downward wearing a white shirt, on top of which he is wearing a deep green overcoat with gold floral emblems patterns on it; and on top of that a blue cloak with gold trimming along the inner edge that has a clear jewel in the center surrounded with six pearls.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for sale as a clò-bhualadh canabhas air-loidhne.
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Carlo was born in Florence; ogha peantair air taobh a mhàthraichean den teaghlach a bha aig aois glè òg na phreantas ri Baróc Eadailteach Jacopo Vignali (1592 – 1664).
Eu-coltach ri mòran de pheantairean eile cha robh Carlo na pheantair torrach; iomadach uair a ’toirt seachdainean ag obair air dìreach aon phàirt de chorp an duine.
Rinn seo e mì-fhreagarrach airson fresco air sgèile mhòr, asd so he mainly painted small scale and half body length portraits; ged a pheant e cuid de dhealbhan làn-ùine cuideachd.
Leis gu robh Dolci na Chrìosdaidh dealasach tha mòran den obair aige cràbhach ann an nàdar, a ’nochdadh a chreideas làidir agus a chreideamh. Bha nighean aige cuideachd Agnese Dolci (1635 – 1686), a bha na neach-ealain ealanta leatha fhèin a chuidich le bhith a ’dèanamh leth-bhreacan de a chuid obrach.