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WEYDEN, Rogier van der: The Annunciation

🖼 The Annunciation, c. 1440
Oil on oak panel
86 × 93 cm
Paris, France

Golden light floods a Gothic chamber where the Virgin kneels in startled reverence before the angel Gabriel. His arrival transforms a domestic interior into sacred space, establishing the Northern Renaissance's fusion of spiritual intensity with meticulous realism.

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