Il soggetto dell'annuncio

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