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BOTTICELLI, Sandro: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1490-92
Tempera on panel (entire predella)
21 × 269 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light bathes two figures in a Florentine interior—the Virgin startled by Gabriel's arrival, rendered with delicate linearism and ethereal grace. Botticelli's composition established the Renaissance visual language for this pivotal Christian moment, merging spiritual intimacy with humanist ideals of beauty and proportion.

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