Shown from the knees up, a winged angel with blond hair and pale skin faces our right in profile with arms crossed at the chest in this vertical painting. A gleaming gold halo surrounds the head and curls lining the forehead and nape of the neck. The angel looks off to our right with silver-gray eyes, and wears a long gown decorated with a brick-red floral pattern against a black background. Gold, feathered wings extend from the shoulders, and the angel leans forward from the hips. The background behind the angel could be a portion of a wall made from stacked mustard-yellow horizontal bands,…
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The Archangel Gabriel

Masolino da Panicale (Florentine, c. 1383 - 1435 or after)

c. 1430

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.6 × 57.8 cm (30 3/16 × 22 3/4 in.) ; framed (with NGA 1939.1.226): 111.76 × 162.08 × 50.8 cm (44 × 63 13/16 × 20 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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