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VERONESE, Paolo: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1558
Oil on canvas
340 × 455 cm
Venice, Italy

Celestial light floods through architectural space as Gabriel kneels before Mary, their figures rendered in Veronese's luminous Venetian palette. This grand interpretation transforms the intimate biblical moment into theatrical splendor, exemplifying Counter-Reformation art's embrace of dramatic color and divine spectacle.

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E. H. Gombrich
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