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LOTTO, Lorenzo: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1534-35
Oil on canvas
166 × 114 cm
Jesi, Italy

Celestial light floods a modest room where Mary startles from her reading as the angel Gabriel materializes, his dynamic diagonal pose creating urgent movement. Lotto's psychological intensity transforms the conventional Annunciation into a disorienting moment of divine interruption, emphasizing human shock over serene acceptance.

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