Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Annunciation
Alternate Title:
Annunciazione
Image View:
Detail, drapery of tunic of Archangel Gabriel
Creator:
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter, 1452-1519)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 1618
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
1472-1475 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera and oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
98 cm (height) x 217 cm (width)
Subjects:
botanical; New Testament; Gabriel (Archangel); Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
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/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-VINCI-UG-A-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Annunciation