# Annunciation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LORENZO DI CREDI]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 88 x 71 cm ## Commentary This small work is entirely based on the precise division of spaces and surfaces and is valuable evidence of interior decoration during this period \(note the elegance of the carved wood which was widely used in those years\). It almost seems as if the central theme is not so much the event of the Annunciation as the room itself, which is entered by way of the small step of the simulated predella, and which leads out through a colonnade into an enchanting, orderly garden. Depicted on the step bolow the scene are the Creation of Eve, the Original Sin, and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [An Angel Brings the Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Bust of a Boy Wearing a Cap]() - [Bust of a Man Wearing a Rolled-Up Cowl Hood]() - [Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Hat]() - [Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate]() - [Madonna with the Christ Child and St John the Baptist]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [The Holy Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()