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ANGELICO, Fra: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1442-43
Fresco
230 × 321 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light bathes two figures in a serene loggia as the angel Gabriel kneels before Mary, rendered in delicate tempera with gold-leaf halos. This quintessential Renaissance image revolutionized religious narrative, balancing spiritual reverence with human intimacy and establishing the visual language for centuries of Annunciation paintings.

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