The annunciation
Artist - Grigor Tatevatsi, 1378
Gospel, 1297

Plate 14. The Annunciation.
It is known in two basic iconographic types: near the spring and in the temple. The former arose on apocryphical literature. In order to justify these two different types, these contradiction were explained thus: at the spring the Annunciation was considered as pre-Annunciation while in the temple it is the Annunciation itself. The miniature of the Anonymous Painter of Syuniq (plate 35) is an example of the former, while Grigor Tatevatsi's Annunciation (plate 14) is more complex, in its development. The water jug in the center of the composition refers, at the same time, to the pre-Annunciation.