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Three lines of text are painted between the
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Ancilla Domini" (Behold the Handmaid of the Lord). This indicates to the viewer that these words are not addressed to us, but are rather meant for God, who would be better situated to read them.
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While these textual features of the painting seem to have been completely new in Italy, they had been used somewhat earlier in
Flanders, notably in two Annunciations by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, first on the cover panels of the
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This work is the main panel of a polyptych work, which includes a multi predella panels with scenes from the Life of the Virgin at the same
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