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The Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1472–1476. [ n 1 ] Leonardo's earliest extant major work, it was completed in Florence while he was an apprentice in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio .
Especially in Early Netherlandish painting, images may contain very complex programmes of visual references, with a number of domestic objects having significance in reinforcing the theology of the event. Well-known examples are the Mérode Altarpiece of Robert Campin, and the Annunciation by Jan van Eyck in Washington.
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An early work by the artist, it shows an Annunciation scene between John the Baptist (left, patron saint of Florence) and Andrew (right, with his diagonal cross). In the background is a view of Florence, meaning it may have been commissioned for an individual or institution in the city – the view includes Santa Maria del Fiore , Giotto's ...
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By the fourteenth and fifteenth century Annunciation scenes commonly show the Virgin Mary is usually seated in an enclosed space reading, while the archangel Gabriel kneels before her, just like in this painting. [4] This Annunciation scene is distinctive because the artist has chosen to place a saint, St. Emidius, beside the archangel Gabriel. [1]
The range of dates given for the painting was previously from 1428–1429 (Panofsky and others) to 1436–1437, but the discovery in 1959 of a date of 1437 on an altarpiece in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, has considerably changed all dating of works by van Eyck, and "makes it all but impossible to continue dating the Annunciation ...