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MEMLING, Hans: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, c. 1489
Oil on wood
79 × 55 cm
New York, United States

Soft light floods a Gothic interior where Gabriel kneels before Mary, rendered in luminous oils with intricate architectural detail. Memling's 1489 panel epitomizes Flemish precision, merging spiritual intimacy with bourgeois domesticity—influencing Northern Renaissance devotional imagery for generations.

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