Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation from San Martino alla Scala) 1481 Detached fresco, 243 x 555 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The usual subject of the announcement to the Virgin Mary by archangel Gabriel is set in a renaissance palace, overlooking…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1440 Tempera on panel, 74 x 52 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam As a Dominican monk, Fra Angelico was not subject to the strict rules of the Florentine painters’ guild. He was thus free…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Flowers in an Jug (verso) c.1485 Oil on panel, 29.2 x 22.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Recto: Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Portrait of a Young Man praying c.1485 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Hans Memling was a leading painter of the second half…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi 1861 Oil on 3 canvases, 133.6 x 98.4 x 8.5 cm / 133.9 x 181.9 x 8 cm / 133.3 x 98.4 x 8 cm Tate Britain, London This triptych…
Guercino (1591-1666) Sant’Antonio da Padova (Saint Anthony of Padua) s.d. Etching on paper, 15.1 x 11.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) L’Annonciation (The Annunciation) 1890 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 47 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen Between 1888 and 1891, Émile Bernard together with Gauguin was the creator of Synthetism, the tendency that marked a historical turn…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1475 Mixed media on panel, 133 x 124 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This panel of The Annunciation entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection from the British art market and seems to have previously been in a private…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1433–1435 Tempera on panel, 98.6 x 49.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Guido di Piero da Mugello, known as Friar Giovanni…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1574 Oil on poplar, 216 x 166 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna della melagrana (Madonna of the Pomegranate) 3rd quarter of the 15th century Oil? on poplar, 79.8 x 55 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In all likelihood, a replica by Filippino of a lost original by Botticelli from…