His messenger, whose arrow is the WORD of the Annunciation, cautiously points to the boundaries of the event and transforms the bow into an evergreen branch of myrtle.


The string drawn by the archer in Stephan Lochner's painting 'Madonna in the Rose Bower' appears as a curtain held open by angels, thus linking both poles of the boundaries of consciousness.


Are then the great masters in painting just reborn archers with only virtually compatible hunting experiences?

The force it takes to draw the bow, to stretch the string and to aim the arrow in the direction of eye and will, both focusing on a distant goal and thereby crossing personal boundaries - what force is this?

Is it the force of the repressing fears of the unknown or rather the courage of faith, leading to abundance in the form of growth in all that is alive?

The paintings of Lochner and Martini let this impulse appear in the realm of faith, in the golden Everafter.