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Not just any woman reading, though. This painting is called The Annunciation. Painted by the Spanish artist Baltazar Echave Orio (1540-1624) in 1621, it shows the Virgin Mary with a book -- and no sign of the angel who, presumably, is about to come and announce her great future.
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