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MASTER of Flémalle: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1420s
Tempera on oak
61 × 63.7 cm
Brussels, Belgium

Soft light floods an intimate domestic interior where Mary kneels before Gabriel, rendered in meticulous Flemish detail with oil glazes. This revolutionary painting relocated the sacred event from church splendor to everyday bourgeois space, transforming religious narrative into lived domestic experience.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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