Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1423–1424 Tempera on panel, 148.8 x 115.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: on the Virgin’s prayerbook: virgo / [c]oncipiet / [e]t p[a]ri[et] / fili[um et vocabitur nomen eius] em[m]anuel / butirum et…
Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) 1480–1490 Tempera on panel, 88 x 71 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) early 1420s Tempera and gilding on panel, 65 x 48 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Attributed to Paolo Uccello (1397-1475)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) 1849–1850 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 41.9 cm Tate Britain, London Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli (1445-1510) and Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Rossetti sought in this work…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) late 16th Century Oil on copper, 35.88 × 27.15 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
El Greco (1541-1614) La Anunciación (The Annunciation) c.1596–1600 Oil on canvas, 114 x 67 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This is a small-scale replica of the canvas on the same subject now in the Museo del Prado and was originally part of…
El Greco (1541-1614) La Anunciación (The Annunciation) c.1576 Oil on canvas, 117 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In the course of his life, EI Greco painted numerous versions of the Annunciation, thus allowing his stylistic development to be traced through…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Annunciation Diptych c.1433–1435 Oil on panel, left wing: 38.8 x 23.2 cm; right wing: 39 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This diptych is an outstanding example of grisaille painting. Here, van Eyck deliberately rejects the…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Annunciation c.1502–1503 Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream, 29.8 × 21.1 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA