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LIPPI, Filippino: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1490-96
Tempera on panel
35 × 51 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Delicate light bathes the Virgin in an intimate interior where the Angel Gabriel kneels, his wings luminous against shadowed walls rendered in soft perspective. Filippino's rendering captures the moment of divine revelation with psychological intimacy, pioneering the emotional depth that defined Renaissance spiritual narratives.

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