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To the sides, angels capture and direct the viewer's gaze. One looks at the viewer directly (like the so-called role of the "reveler", taken from sacred representations of
Renaissance theater). The other angel reclines its head against Jesus' gesture of benediction. Their faces are an ideal of
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in Rome. At the end of 1488, he was made prior of the church in his home town of San
Severino Marche. He seems to have commissioned the work to commemorate this event. Pinturicchio was then among a new generation of artists working in Rome and probably delivered the work around 1490.
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to the kneeling client below, who is represented in profile with detailed attention to its facial features (the brow furrows, veins, and the consistency of the loose hair). That detail reveals
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The background has the look of
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