Original artwork description:

" Gabriel" is a Renaissance-style portrait painted in acrylic on cotton canvas stretched over wood. He is both a page and an angel...

His gentle face is framed by an unusual golden headdress, emerging from a dark blue background, while a golden halo surrounds his head. In the Middle Ages, a page was a knight's steward, an apprentice squire. A young man served as a page for seven years, from the age of seven. At fourteen, he could become a squire, and at twenty-one, he could become a knight himself. The angel Gabriel was the one who announced to the Virgin Mary that she was going to have a child...

The painting is housed in a magnificent antique Napoleon III frame carved in black and gold, which has been hunted down. It gives the whole a baroque effect.

Technique: acrylic paint, brushes and knife.

Dimensions canvas alone: W30 x H40 cm, with frame: W 48.5 x H 58.5 cm x Th. 6 cm

Materials used:

mixable oil paint, acrylic paint, varnish, cotton canvas, embossing paste

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