Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Annunciation
Alternate Title:
Annunciazione
Image View:
Detail, God the Father appears in an aureole; instead of the Dove of the Holy Spirit, a representation of the baby Jesus carrying a cross flies to Mary
Creator:
Giovanni Santi (Italian painter, 1430 or 1440-1494)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Pinacoteca di Brera; Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
ca. 1470-1494 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
228 cm (height) x 158 cm (width)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Gabriel (Archangel); Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
Santi was a painter and writer. He was the father of Raphael. In his early works, Santi seems to have borrowed from the paintings of Pietro Perugino (who may have visited Urbino in the 1470s), particularly in his use of spacious landscape backgrounds. Yet, Melozzo da Forlì was his most influential master. Melozzo’s painted figures, with their crisply modelled draperies and vigorous foreshortening, proved distinctive models. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-SANTI-PB-A-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Annunciation