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BOTTICELLI, Sandro: Cestello Annunciation

🖼 Cestello Annunciation, 1489-90
Tempera on panel
150 × 156 cm
Florence, Italy

Luminous gold light bathes Mary as the angel Gabriel kneels before her, their figures balanced in perfect Renaissance symmetry. This Annunciation pioneered the intimate, psychologically nuanced approach that defined Botticelli's spiritual narratives and influenced Florentine religious art.

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