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ANGELICO, Fra: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1430s
Panel
195 × 158 cm
Varallo, Italy

Soft light floods a serene loggia where Gabriel kneels before Mary, their figures rendered in delicate tempera with gold leaf halos. Fra Angelico's masterpiece exemplifies Early Renaissance spirituality, blending mathematical perspective with divine grace to revolutionize religious painting's emotional intimacy.

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