This film examines questions around gender, faith and obedience, and how women’s bodies are perceived in the modern world, in this imaginative retelling of the Annunciation story. Visit the Cambridge in Your Classroom website to take your learning further and to explore our student & teacher resources www.bit.ly/CambridgeClassroom
The Annunciation story, where Angel Gabriel tells Mary she is bearing a child who is the Son of God, is a popular theme in medieval and modern European art and culture. The illustrations in this film were inspired by real life paintings, including by Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Luca Giodano, Dieric Bouts, El Greco, Caravaggio, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Edward Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Hitchcock, John Collier, James Tissot, Paula Rego, Richard Hamilton, Tracey Emin, and Gottfried Helnwein.
Cambridge in Your Classroom is a joint project by the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Education PGCE Religious Studies course at the University of Cambridge.
