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Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci, 1472
Uffizi Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
This scene was standard issue in Florence then — workshops turned them out constantly for churches and chapels that wanted one. It came out of his apprentice years in someone else's studio, which is apparently why people still argue about how much of it is his hand at all.
Erisava: That misty blue mountain in the back is doing more for me than anything up front.
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Raphael, 1515
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
This one got mistaken for a Raphael self-portrait for a long time. Turns out it's actually a portrait of one of his patrons — a wealthy Florentine banker who helped fund some of his other work.
Erisava: You don't get painted like this unless you can afford it.
Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, 1475
Uffizi Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
The man who paid for this was, from what I've read, a broker who wanted everyone to know how close he stood to the Medici — so a good number of the faces crowding in are theirs, painted in as kings and hangers-on. It went up on a church wall, which is a very polite place to put an advert for yourself.
Erisava: Too crowded for a holy scene. What did it cost to get your face in there?