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| Keywords: Santi di Tito - The Annunciation - Walters 371677.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749507 Creator Santi di Tito en The archangel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the Christ Child while God the Father and the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove appear above left The white lilies Gabriel holds are symbolic of the Virgin's chastity The painter has depicted the loggia of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata Annunciate Mary in Florence behind his own Annunciation scene revealing his pride in being a Florentine artist The elongated and graceful style and the decorously draped figures were characteristic of Florentine painting of the late 16th century Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 227 343-344 ca 1580 Renaissance oil on panel Painted surface H 41 9/16 × W 32 3/16 × D excluding cradle 7/16 in 105 5 × 81 7 × 1 1 cm accession number 37 1677 4625 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 267 as Marcello Venusti Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Baroque Painting in Italy 1600-1750 The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 1969 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Santi di Tito Italian Renaissance paintings of Annunciation 1580s paintings in the United States 16th-century religious paintings in the United States Christian figures on clouds Angels on clouds Angels with flowers 16th-century paintings of Annunciation 1580s religious paintings | ||||
