Il soggetto dell'annuncio

The pictorial topic of “Annunciation” gives the possibility of an understandingof Heidegger’s masterful reading of announcement as Erscheinung in itsdistinction from Phänomen as self-manifestation. In particular, three paintings –L’annunciazione di Recanati by Lorenzo Lotto, Ecce Ancilla Domini by DanteGabriel Rossetti, The Annunciation by John William Waterhouse – allow in theanalysis of announcement a reference to subjectivity as receiver which is grasped inits primordial passivity, but also in its capacity of answering and self-positioningin front of announcement.