10. The Annunciation by Jan Van Eyck The Annunciation by Jan Van Eyck was the left panel of a triptych when it was first created. The painting is a testament to Van Eyck’s skill with oil paints.

The first known Marian painting to use garden symbols is not an Annunciation scene but a Mother-Child representation (see image on the right) probably dating from the beginning of the fifteenth ...