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LORENZO Monaco: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1410-15
Tempera on panel
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes the kneeling Virgin as the angel Gabriel descends with sweeping robes, rendered in delicate International Gothic style with intricate gold leaf detail. Lorenzo Monaco's ethereal composition revolutionized Florentine sacred art, merging Byzantine spirituality with emerging Renaissance perspective and emotional intimacy.

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