This dainty picture, painted in a harmony of pinks and grays, portrays a momentous event from the Gospel of Luke: the Archangel Gabriel reveals to the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son. Inviting the beholder to contemplate Mary’s dignified acquiescence, Pesellino set his scene in an architectural space at once convincingly three-dimensional and oddly abstract. Note the still-life elements at the center of the scene and the delicate shadow cast by the Virgin.