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"Some art historians credit both angels to Leonardo, while others theorize that Sandro Botticelli may have completed the second angel. Leonardo's (and possibly Boticelli's) work in this painting is characteristic of a category known as the High Renaissance style, a style that was newly developing in Florence at this time. The hazy, three-dimensional angels stand out clearly against Verrocchio's portions of the painting, which are done in the more stiffer and flatter Early Renaissance style."
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