The Annunciation
The original, as its museum records it
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Gabriel kneels in a walled garden and extends a lily, Mary's emblem of purity. The garden closes on every side, echoing a garden long read as a figure of her virginity. He casts a real shadow on the grass.
Her right arm reaches unusually far toward the book she was reading. The Uffizi reads this as calibration, not error: the panel hung low over a side altar, its perspective possibly built to resolve from a lateral, right-hand viewpoint.
No patron or commission survives — only its arrival from San Bartolomeo a Monteoliveto, outside Florence.
Sources: Lily as emblem of Mary's purity that names the Annunciation event itself · NEH essay corroborating the elongated arm as a deliberate off-axis perspectival device · Book open on the lectern signals Mary reading at the moment of interruption
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 7,776 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.