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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, -
Tempera on wood
44 × 33 cm
Vatican, Italy

Gilded light streams through Gothic architecture as Mary kneels before the angel Gabriel, their figures rendered in elegant linear perspective. This early Renaissance masterpiece revolutionized religious narrative, establishing the Annunciation as a pivotal moment in Christian art through its spiritual intensity and innovative spatial composition.

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