# The Annunciation

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on wood

## Commentary

In the closing years of his career, Beccafumi tended to rein in his more extravagant ideas and also went back to painting calmer compositions that create a sense of silent intimacy. However, he never gave up his unmistakable and extraordinarily rich use of colour nor his love of grading the tone in his pictures from parts that were brilliantly bathed in warm light through to very dark areas.

## Related artworks

- [Birth of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/birth-of-the-virgin-r437bb2603be443>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-r87e74ec391e9a5>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-rd913e2b9404f88>)
- [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/head-of-a-youth-seen-in-profile-r72e9e74f77eaaa>)
- [Hermathena](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/hermathena-r08db23078351e5>)
- [Judgment of Zaleukos](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/judgment-of-zaleukos-rcdbd14ad366537>)
- [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/madonna-with-the-infant-christ-and-st-john-the-baptist-rdc6f580a4396fb>)
- [Moses and the Golden Calf](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/moses-and-the-golden-calf-rdedcf7dd4453e2>)
- [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/mystical-marriage-of-st-catherine-rcb8f09891e20ac>)
- [Penelope](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/penelope-r7dfda1043b9970>)
- [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/scipio-appeals-to-the-honour-of-his-soldiers-r1ec121b33f682c>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/st-jerome-r0f07fdf3059855>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)