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CARPACCIO, Vittore: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1504
Oil and tempera on canvas
130 × 140 cm
Venice, Italy

Golden light floods a symmetrical interior where Gabriel kneels before Mary, rendered in precise linear perspective with jeweled colors. Carpaccio's 1504 masterpiece epitomizes Venetian Renaissance spirituality, blending Northern detail with Italian harmony to transform an intimate theological moment into luminous domestic space.

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E. H. Gombrich
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