The Virgin Annunciate | |
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Artist | Antonello da Messina |
Year | c. 1476 |
Medium | Oil on wood |
Dimensions | 45 cm × 34.5 cm (18 in × 13.6 in) |
Location | Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo |
The Virgin Annunciate is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. Probably painted in Sicily in 1476, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation. It is painted in oil on panel, a technique introduced to Italy by its artist,[1] who had learned it from North European artists such as Petrus Christus[2] - by thus abandoning tempera technique he was able to produce the finely-detailed works typical of him.[3]
"The painting was bequeathed to the Museo Nazionale (later, the Palazzo Abatellis) in 1906 by the Cavaliere Di Giovanni, who had purchased it from the Colluzio family in Palermo..."[4]
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