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Artwork · Fra Angelico · 1425–1426 · painting · Museo del Prado

Fra Angelico’s altarpiece for San Domenico in Fiesole, 1425–26: the angel Gabriel and the Virgin in a loggia, Adam and Eve driven from Paradise on the left; the predella tells the life of the Virgin. Bought in 1611 as a gift for the Duke of Lerma, it came to the Prado in 1861.