Why Are These Words Upside Down?

Upside-down speech opens a church full of religious messages. CHAPTERS 0:00 One Reply Faces the Wrong Way 0:38 Who Is Meant to Read the Reply? 1:18 A Real Room for an Extraordinary Event 1:59 Light With a Meaning 3:06 The Story Beneath Their Feet 4:10 The Object Has a History Too 4:51 Looking From Another Position SOURCES NGA: The Annunciation, object 46 https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46-annunciation NGA: Stories and Symbols in Jan van Eyck’s The Annunciation https://www.nga.gov/stories/articles/stories-and-symbols-jan-van-eycks-annunciation NGA: Free Images and Open Access https://www.nga.gov/artworks/free-images-and-open-access NGA: Terms and Notices https://www.nga.gov/terms-and-notices IMAGE CREDITS Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, c.1434/1436. Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.39. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 museum image. File: artwork-master.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Original script and explanatory guides by The Art Detail. Authentic registered reproductions; guides are labelled. Licensed synthetic narration: Andrew Dragon HD Latest. The Art Detail · Small details. Remarkable stories.