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Statue titled Annunciation: the Angel by Jacopo della Quercia in the Colegiata di Santa Maria Assunta in San Gimignano. #277829049
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Pictured is a polychrome wood statue titled Annunciation: the Angel by Italian sculptor Jacopo della Quercia in 1421 in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta in San Gimignano, Italy. Gabriel is centered in front of a fresco of a hanging damask. He also completed a sculpture of the Virgin Mary at the same time and location. In the Annunciation, the Virgin Mary receives news from the Archangel Gabriel that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus. In this photograph a painting of the Virgin receiving the news is just to the left of the statue of the Archangel Gabriel.
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