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ANGELICO, Fra: Virgin Mary Annunciate

🖼 Virgin Mary Annunciate, 1431-33
Tempera and gold on panel
31 × 26 cm
Detroit, USA

Soft light bathes the kneeling Virgin in delicate tempera, her graceful pose rendered with intimate reverence. Angelico's serene composition epitomizes Early Renaissance spirituality, transforming the Annunciation into a meditation on divine acceptance and feminine virtue.

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E. H. Gombrich
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