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FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI: Madonna Annunciate

🖼 Madonna Annunciate, c. 1469
Panel
39 × 29 cm
Siena, Italy

Soft sfumato modeling renders Mary's delicate features in profile, her graceful hands folded in reverent acceptance against a gold ground. This intimate devotional image epitomizes Early Renaissance spirituality, merging Sienese tradition with emerging humanist ideals of dignified femininity.

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E. H. Gombrich
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