The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490 · Tempera and gold on wood
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
The Annunciation is a public-domain painting by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), dated ca. 1490. Tempera and gold on wood. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Annunciation” (ca. 1490) has Botticelli’s clear, decorative line. The faces in his myth and religious pictures repeat almost like a signature.
About the artist
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) was a Florentine painter of myth and religious panels. The line is clear and decorative, and the faces are repeated almost like a signature.
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