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MASOLINO da Panicale: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, 1423-24
Tempera on panel
149 × 115 cm
Washington, United States

Golden light floods the loggia as Gabriel kneels before Mary, their figures rendered in delicate tempera with precise linear perspective. This early Renaissance masterpiece demonstrates Masolino's mastery of spatial depth and devotional intimacy, bridging Gothic grace with humanist naturalism.

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