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

10. Annunciation (detail)

1452-66
Fresco
San Francesco, Arezzo

Mary is regal, with a very beautiful expression, serious, but untroubled, since she is already aware of the meaning of the divine message foretold in the Holy Scriptures, which she had been reading.




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