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QUERCIA, Jacopo della: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, c. 1420
Painted wood
Siena, Italy

Graceful figures inhabit a gilded Gothic space where the Virgin receives divine news, rendered with delicate linear perspective and International Gothic elegance. Quercia's marble relief established a revolutionary model for Renaissance Annunciations, emphasizing psychological intimacy over rigid formality.

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