Cestello Annunciation, tempera by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli

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Annunciation, March 25: This reminds us of Christmas, but actually Mary was visited by an angel nine months before she gave birth to her son.
Latin 9474. Hours of Anne de Bretagne

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So many people that ’s is the most beautiful painting. I am not convinced that is the most beautiful painting by His & get my vote. Great PR Louvre - time to get her face wiped

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Here's an image with a similar color scheme from Konrad Witz: Annunciation, 1440

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The final instalment of our series connected by gold, now at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

The Holy Hunt, an allegorical representation of the Annunciation, features a Golden Gate, a Golden Fleece and a pot of gold. Can you spot them all?

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“The Annunciation,1914”

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.

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