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ANGELICO, Fra: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1430-32
Tempera on wood
194 × 194 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft light bathes two figures—Gabriel and Mary—in a serene loggia, their gestures delicate and reverent. Fra Angelico's luminous palette and graceful composition pioneered Renaissance spiritual intimacy, transforming religious narrative into contemplative experience.

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E. H. Gombrich
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