# Annunciation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LORENZO VENEZIANO]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 111 x 54 cm ## Commentary This painting, signed and dated 1371, is the central panel of a polyptych. Here we can see clearly how Lorenzo Veneziano, in his mature work moved increasingly towards the musical expressiveness of colour shot through with Gothic accents. The iconographical scheme of this Annunciation is radically different from that of the Lion polyptych. The figures of the Virgin and the herald angel inhabit the space of the picture in a much more substantial sense, are in much solider bodily contact with the grass and flowers. Indeed this is the first example in Venice of a naturalistic motif which was dear to the hearts of the refined artists working in the International Gothic style. This style too is exemplified in the elaborate linear cadences and the way the figures are presented in curving compositional rhythms. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation with Saints]() - [Apostle Peter Preaching]() - [Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew]() - [Christ Giving the Keys to St Peter]() - [Christ Rescuing Peter from Drowning]() - [Conversion of Paul]() - [Crucifixion of Peter]() - [Lion Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Lion Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Lion Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Lion Polyptych]() - [Lion Polyptych]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()