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PISANELLO: Apparition of the Virgin to Sts Anthony Abbot and George

PISANELLO
🖼 Apparition of the Virgin to Sts Anthony Abbot and George, 1445
Panel
47 × 29 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light bathes a miraculous vision as the Virgin materializes above two saints in prayer, rendered with Pisanello's characteristic delicate line and luminous detail. This Gothic masterpiece exemplifies 15th-century Northern Italian devotion, blending spiritual intensity with courtly elegance to create one of the era's most ethereal religious visions.

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E. H. Gombrich
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