# Annunciation

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/annunciation-rc9b4c2be26c556>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BARTOLOMEO, Fra](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Panel, 176 x 170 cm

## Commentary

The painting is signed on the back and dates from 1497 but appears to be a collaborative effort with Mariotto Albertinelli with whom Fra Bartolomeo performed a partnership, perhaps by the mid-1490s. A rather conservative composition that still reveals impulses from both Filippino Lippi and Perugino, this painting emphasizes the distant landscape at the centre of the composition. The perspectival construction of the floor leads through an open doorway to a bright, airy country scene dominated by a single tree, which might refer to the Crucifixion.

## Related artworks

- [Christ Crowned with Thorns](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/christ-crowned-with-thorns-r233b21aacb7ceb>)
- [Christ with the Four Evangelists](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/christ-with-the-four-evangelists-r162d16b1a25fe1>)
- [God the Father with Sts Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/god-the-father-with-sts-catherine-of-siena-and-mary-magdalen-r642bb5f6acff13>)
- [Lamentation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/lamentation-r528a375abbe921>)
- [Last Judgment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/last-judgment-r37f9905ad5113c>)
- [Madonna della Misericordia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/madonna-della-misericordia-r37cb461aeb3cc0>)
- [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/mystic-marriage-of-st-catherine-r23542ad02fb6e4>)
- [Noli Me Tangere](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/noli-me-tangere-r484ab250cfa06b>)
- [Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/portrait-of-girolamo-savonarola-r307368cccac231>)
- [Prophet Isaiah](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/prophet-isaiah-rd676a5551af083>)
- [Rest on the Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/rest-on-the-flight-into-egypt-race9d67a950bcc>)
- [The Adoration of the Christ Child \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bartolomeo-fra-r04fb59bcb42478/the-adoration-of-the-christ-child-detail-rbe122b38a4dae3>)

## Attribution

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