Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso) 1435-38 Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) Italian The three standing figures on the recto of this sheet probably served as studies for an 'Annunciation,' according to a style of iconography that was characteristic in the stone sculptures of portals in French Gothic Cathedrals. The most famous example are the pairs of freestanding sculptures of the 'Annunciation and Visitation' of ca. 1245-55 at Reims Cathedral (right jamb of the central portal in the west façade). In fact, the volumetric modeling of the forms and the relative isolation of each standing figure on the sheet seems to confirm they were studied from sculptures in the round. At center and left is the same figure of a youth but portrayed from two different points of view, front and back, and these studies were probably intended for the annunciating Angel Gabriel, although he is not winged and the position of the ar

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Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso) 1435-38 Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) Italian The three standing figures on the recto of this sheet probably served as studies for an 'Annunciation,' according to a style of iconography that was characteristic in the stone sculptures of portals in French Gothic Cathedrals. The most famous example are the pairs of freestanding sculptures of the 'Annunciation and Visitation' of ca. 1245-55 at Reims Cathedral (right jamb of the central portal in the west façade). In fact, the volumetric modeling of the forms and the relative isolation of each standing figure on the sheet seems to confirm they were studied from sculptures in the round. At center and left is the same figure of a youth but portrayed from two different points of view, front and back, and these studies were probably intended for the annunciating Angel Gabriel, although he is not winged and the position of the ar

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