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| Keywords: Bicci di Lorenzo - The Annunciation - Walters 37448.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Bicci di Lorenzo Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni Italian 1405-1483 en This unusually well-preserved and exquisitely painted altarpiece shows the moment when the archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that she will give birth to the Son of God The dialogue between them is inscribed in their haloes In the spandrel above David one of the ancestors of Christ is painted in his role as the Old Testament prophet The little garden behind Gabriel is a hortus conclusus enclosed garden symbolic of Mary's virginity The three predella panels the painted base of an altarpiece below this scene depict the birth of the Virgin her presentation in the Temple and her death The less refined figure of David and the predella scenes differ in style from the Annunciation and must have been painted by Stefano di Antonio who collaborated with Bicci di Lorenzo For more information on this altarpiece please see Zeri catalogue number 19 pp 32-35 ca 1430 Renaissance tempera tooled gold panel with frame and canopy in 64 75 56 9375 10 Main panel visible painted surface in 44 5 49 1 75 Middle spandrel roundel size cm 14 Birth of the Virgin painted surface H exclusive of gold borders in 5 6875 13 5625 Presentation of the Virgin painted surface H exclusive of gold borders in 5 6875 13 75 Dormition of the Virgin painted surface H exclusive of gold borders in 5 6875 13 5625 accession number 37 448 36492 Stefano Bardini Collection prior to 1890 mode of acquisition unknown cited in Fiorenza Scalia La citta degli Uffizi-Florence 1982 p 46 with 1890 photo of Bardini Gallery showing this painting Lawrence W Hodson Wolverhampton Compton Hall England date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Christie's London June 25 1906 no 187 as early Italian school C Fairfax-Murray London and Florence 1907 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Bernard Berenson as agent Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 Transcription In the halo of the archangel counter-clockwise AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DNS TECV; Transcription In the halo of the Virgin clockwise ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT M M ; Transcription On the book lying near the door FEMIA / CIRCI / DABIT / VIRVM / IEREM / IA PHA / 31; Transcription On the book held by the Virgin ECCE VIR / GO CONC / IPIET ; Transcription Across the base of the main panel on the frame dividing it from the predella O BENE FECVNDA VIRGINITAS QVE NOVO INAVDITOQUE GENERE ET MATER DICI POSSIT ET VIRGO The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Bicci di Lorenzo Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
