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  <title>The Annunciation (1432, Museo del Prado)</title>
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    <updated>2007-04-09T17:49:23Z</updated>
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<p>By <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico">Fra Angelico</a> (Italy, 1387-1455).</p>


	<p><strong>Quintessence of early renaissance religious art</strong>. I like the composition and the contrast between the organic background and the geometric shape (with weird perspective) of the building. <strong>Pure and enchanting</strong>.</p>


	<p><img src="http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/fourpaintings/daddi/large/d28.jpg" style="width:600px;" alt="" /><br /><em>(Tempera on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain)</em></p>


	<p>note:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureole">aureole</a> / halo history: <a href="http://www.lope.ca/halo/">Halos in Art: Horus to Jesus Christ to the X-Men</a></p>      </div>
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