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ANGELICO, Fra: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1433-34
Tempera on wood
150 × 180 cm
Cortona, Italy

Soft light bathes the Virgin as the Angel Gabriel approaches, their figures framed by Renaissance architecture and delicate gold leaf. This pivotal religious moment exemplifies Early Italian Renaissance spirituality, merging divine grace with emerging humanist perspective and atmospheric refinement.

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