# Stoup decorated with the Annunciation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FOGGINI, Giambattista]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Gilded bronze, semiprecious stones, height 90 cm ## Commentary This stoup, now in the Queen's Bedroom of the Royal and Imperial Apartments in Palazzo Pitti, was designed for private worship by Giambattista Foggini. The flamboyant gilded bronzes, cast under the direct supervision of Foggini, almost dominates the semiprecious stone elements used to create the dove representing the Holy Spirit \(chalcedony from Volterra\), the holy water stoup in the form of a shell valve \(chalcedony from Graubünden\), the fruits used on the festoons, and the Annunciation in the two mosaic oval medallions. ## Related artworks - [Battle of Anghiari]() - [Bust of Cardinal Gian Carlo de' Medici]() - [Bust of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici]() - [Cosimo III de' Medici]() - [Decoration of the Feroni Chapel]() - [Elector Palatine's cabinet]() - [Ferdinando de' Medici]() - [First Mass of St Andrea]() - [Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici as a Child]() - [Prie-dieu of the Electress Palatine]() - [Reliquary of St Sigismund \(detail\)]() - [Reliquary of St Sigismund]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()