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| Keywords: Luca Signorelli - The Archangel Gabriel - Walters 37520.jpg This image of the archangel Gabriel which has suffered some damage is most likely a fragment from a much larger painting of the Annunciation which would have had the Virgin Mary on the right The white lily held by the archangel is symbolic of Mary's virginity The perfectly regular profile the long curling hair the gracefulness of the hands and the overall emphasis on contour lines are characteristic of later 15th-century central Italian painting of which Signorelli was one of the great masters Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 95 142-143 ca 1490 early Renaissance oil on panel Painted surface H 30 13/16 x W 21 3/16 x D excluding cradle 1/2 in 78 3 x 53 8 x 1 2 cm accession number 37 520 36737 Stephen Bourgeois Cologne date and mode of acquisition unknown Peter A B Widener Lynnewood Hall Philadelphia date and mode of acquisition unknown 1885 and 1900 catalogues no 253 Henry Walters Baltimore prior to 1922 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters before 1922 place of origin Tuscany Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Luca Signorelli Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
