Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Annunciation
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Alternate Title:
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Annunciazione
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Image View:
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Detail, Virgin Mary sits at her lectern
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Creator:
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Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter, 1452-1519)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 1618
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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1472-1475 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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tempera and oil paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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98 cm (height) x 217 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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botanical; New Testament; Gabriel (Archangel); Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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The work came to the Uffizi in 1867 from the monastery of San Bartolomeo of Monteoliveto, near Florence. It was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio until 1869, when some critics recognized it as a youthful work by Leonardo, executed around 1472-1475, when he was still an apprentice in the workshop of his master, Andrea del Verrocchio. The sacred scene is set in the garden of a Florentine palace, with a landscape on the background which is already peculiarly Leonardesque. The plants in the meadow, the 'flowery mede' are painted with exquisite and accurate detail. The marble table in front of the Virgin probably quotes the tomb of Piero and Giovanni dei Medici in the church of San Lorenzo sculpted by Verrocchio in this period. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-VINCI-UG-A-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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