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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1482
Fresco
San Gimignano, Italy

Soft light floods a Renaissance loggia where Gabriel kneels before Mary, their figures separated by architectural space and marble columns rendered in precise linear perspective. Ghirlandaio's 1482 masterpiece epitomizes Early Renaissance narrative clarity, merging Florentine humanism with devotional intensity through meticulous detail and spatial harmony.

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