# Angel of Annunciation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MOCHI, Francesco]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Marble, over life-size ## Commentary The Late Renaissance Classicism passed into the early Baroque in the early works of of Mochi, the Annunciation figures from Orvieto Cathedral. The most striking quality of Mochi's figures is their clarity and simple directness; they have none of the empty rhetorical gestures of much Mannerist art, and so illustrate admirably the Counter-Reformation demands for intelligibility and realism. See also the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mochi/angel1.html'\)" HREF="/html/m/mochi/angel1.html">Virgin Annunciate.</A> ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Bust of a Youth]() - [Bust of Cardinal Antonio Barberini]() - [Equestrian Statue of Alessandro Farnese \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Alessandro Farnese \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Alessandro Farnese \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Alessandro Farnese \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Alessandro Farnese \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()