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VERONESE, Paolo: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1558
Oil on canvas
340 × 455 cm
Venice, Italy

Luminous architecture frames the Virgin's startled gesture as the angel descends in swirling drapery and divine light. Veronese's grand Venetian composition transforms intimate religious drama into theatrical spectacle, defining Counter-Reformation visual propaganda through color and spatial drama.

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E. H. Gombrich
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