File:Masolino Annunciation.jpg
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Summary
Masolino da Panicale: The Annunciation
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painting  |
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| Genre |
religious art |
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| Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depicted people |
Mary |
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| Date | between 1423 and 1424 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | tempera on panel with and possibly oil glazes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 148.8 cm (58.5 in); width: 115.1 cm (45.3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Current location |
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 04; Andrew W. Mellon Collection |
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| Accession number |
1937.1.16 |
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| Object history |
ca. 1426 Altar piece for the Guardini Chapel on the left side of the rood screen for San Niccolo, Oltrarno, Florence; ca. 1567 (date of the demolition of the rood screen) transferred to the altar of the other chapel of the Guardini family in the same church; 1576 moved to the Sacristy and replaced by the Annunciation altarpiece newly painted by Alessandro Fei possibly Francis Weymss-Charteris-Douglas, 9th earl of Wemyss [1796-1883], Gosford House, Longniddry, Scotland circa 1886: inherited by Francis Richard Charteris, 10th earl of Wemyss [1818-1914], Gosford House 1914: inherited by Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th earl of Wemyss, [1857-1937], Gosford House circa 1915: purchased by Robert Langton Douglas, London circa 1916: purchased by Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York 26 April 1937: purchased by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh 1937: given |
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| Inscriptions |
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 / mel come / dit u[t] fiat / [rep]roba[re] (Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum. Ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. Butyrum et mel comedet, ut sciat reprobare malum, et eligere bonum] |
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| Notes | inscription on the Virgin's prayerbook from Isaiah 7:14-15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | National Gallery of Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Web Gallery of Art:  Image  Info about artwork |
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| current | 11:48, 20 November 2013 | | 2,333 × 2,996 (2.37 MB) | wikimediacommons>Eugene a | Better |
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