Artist: Filippino Lippi

Date: 1489-1492

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• The fresco is St. Thomas Aquinas Presents Cardinal Carafa to Our Lady of the Annunciation. The annunciation is when Mary is told by the angel Gabriel she is to bear Jesus. In the same space, St. Thomas presents Carafa, the patron of the chapel, to Mary

 

• Near Mary are an olive branch and a carafe, words that create a rebus for Oliviero Carafe's name

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• Behind the apostles on the right, Carafa's naval conquests are indicated by a giraffe and other rare animals