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Description: | In a domestic interior, the Virgin kneels before a prie-dieu, right. She wears a long white dress with a bold light-blue decorative pattern, and over it, a long blue cloak. Her left hand holds the book she has been reading, her right is held up to acknowledge the Angel Gabriel, who appears at the left. The Virgin has long red tresses; her eyes are closed or downcast, and her head is inclined towards the Angel. Gabriel, who also appears to be kneeling, is dressed in a long white robe; around the neck, and fluttering to the ground are long red ribbons. In the left hand, the Angel holds a sceptre, the right hand is raised above his head in a gesture of greeting. He also has long red hair, tied with a simple band; his wings, with white inner sides and colourful exteriors, stretch out behind him. Between the two figures is an earthenware pot with a single stem of lilies. Above the Virgin's head is a white dove, linked by rays of light to an image of God the Father seen in the sky through a window, left. A three-legged chair with a pinkish-red cushion is against the wall behind the figures. A pinkish-red canopied bed, on a chequer-pattern floor, is behind the Virgin on the right. The floor in the foreground is of a more complex pattern incorporating reddish-brown octagons. A landscape is also visible through the windows on the left. | Subjects: | religion (Annunciation) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Master of the Brunswick Diptych (North Netherlandish painter, active ca. 1480-1510) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to German School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8753... | Go to resource |
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