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The Annunciation  1457

by Johann Koerbecke

[i]The Annunciation[/i] was one of eight scenes from the life of the Virgin decorating the inside of the wings of Johann Koerbecke’s masterpiece, the altarpiece formerly on the high altar of the Cistercian abbey of Marienfeld, near Münster in northwest Germany. The wings framed the altarpiece’s center, where relics and a gilded statue of the Virgin and Child were displayed...
Size: 
Panel: 93.3 × 65.8 cm; Painted Surface: 36 3/16 × 25 1/4 in.
Medium: 
Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago