PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
(b. 1416, Borgo San Sepolcro, d. 1492, Borgo San Sepolcro)

10. Annunciation (detail)

1452-66
Fresco
San Francesco, Arezzo

The archangel Gabriel brings the announcement to Mary inside her home: an elegant Roman style setting, decorated with valuable red and green marble. Before a closed, wooden door with intarsia panels, the kneeling archangel brings the divine message to the Virgin. He is in perfect profile, according to the fourteenth-century iconographic tradition.




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