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ANGELICO, Fra: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1430-32
Tempera on wood
154 × 194 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft light floods a serene loggia where Gabriel kneels before Mary, their figures rendered in delicate tempera with gold leaf halos. Fra Angelico's ethereal composition defines Renaissance spirituality, blending divine mystery with intimate human emotion through luminous color and graceful linear perspective.

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