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Annunciation to Mary: The Archangel Gabriel
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Annunciation to Mary: The Archangel Gabriel

Elsässischer Meister, 16. Jh. · 1515 · Mischtechnik auf Eichenholz

From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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According to Burckhardt, the two outer wing panels Inv. 1367 and 1366, together with their detached inner sides, were still in the Spitalkapelle in Belfort in 1888. Inside, they depicted the Entombment and the Resurrection against landscape vistas without gold ground; the Resurrection is said to have shown a naked (angel?) putto. On the Entombment, the same Marian monogram with a shortening stroke appeared, visible in the upper right corner of Inv. 1366. In their voluminous f...

Kunstmuseum Basel’s own description
Credit lineVerkündigung an Maria: Der Erzengel Gabriel. 1515. Elsässischer Meister, 16. Jh.. Kunstmuseum Basel, Schenkung der Prof. J.J. Bachofen-Burckhardt-Stiftung. Public domain.

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