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Rhode Island School of Design Museum; oil painting; Italian; Church of Santa Margherita; Prato; Virgin Mary; Angel Gabriel; palazzo; balcony; 16th Century
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Annunciate Virgin, Risd Museum, Evelyn Lincoln
Annunciate Virgin, Risd Museum, Evelyn Lincoln
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This scene from the Annunciation is all that remains of a commission for the Church of Santa Margherita, the devotional center of a hospital and monastery in the Tuscan city of Prato. Its daring color and figural exaggeration are aspects of a late-Renaissance Mannerist style for which the Florentine artist Mirabello Cavalori was known. Like many candlelit altarpieces, the painting was damaged by fire, destroying the figure of the Angel Gabriel. At left, his surviving hand draws the gaze of the Virgin Mary, who is seated in a 16th-century palazzo near a balcony overlooking a mountainous landscape. Her modest but …