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//**The Arnolfini Portrait**// Van Eyck, Jan. //The Arnolfini Portrait//. 1434. National Gallery, London. //ARTstor//. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. 
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The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel executed in 1434 by Jan van Eyck, a master of Early Netherlandish painting. Among other titles, it is also know as "The Arnolfini Wedding", The Arnolfini Marriage", "The Arnolfini Double Portrait", or the "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife". This painting is believed to be a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife in a room, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most orginial and complex paintings in Western art history. Being both signed and dated by Van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarplace by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executers in oils rather than in tempera. The painting was brought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.

//**The Annuciation**// Angelico, Fra. //The Annuciation//. 1440-1445. //ARTstor//. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. .
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The Annuciation is, in Christianity, the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the angel Gabriel that she would concieve a child to be born the son of God. Some Christian churches celebrate this event, whichh happened in "the sixth monther", with the feast of the Annunication on March 25, which as the incarnation is nine months before Christmas. The date of the Annunciation is also marked the New Year in many places, including England, where it is called Lady Day. Both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churchers hold that the Annunciation took place at Nazareth, but differ as to the precise location. The Church of the Annunciation marks the site preferred by the former, while the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation marks that of the latter.