03 — ARTWORK
Annunciation
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 91 x 66,5 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
HOVER OR TAP A SWATCH FOR NAME, SHARE AND HEX. SAMPLED FROM THE IMAGE — INDICATIVE, NOT A PIGMENT ANALYSIS.
THIS REPRODUCTION DOWNLOAD THE FULL FILE ↓
- FILE
- 860 × 1200 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
Proof of El Greco's popularity among his contemporaries are the numerous replicas of a number of his pictures, painted by himself, which are still extant. Their quality is such that in several cases it is difficult to determine which was the original and which the replica. One of these is The Annunciationthe term for the event described in the Gospel according to St. Luke, when the Angel Gabriel brings the Virgin Mary the news that she is to bear her son, Jesus Christ. The Annunciation was among the most widespread pictorial subjects of European art during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. with its various shades of sparkling pearl-grey, with the painter's signature in Greek letters in the left-hand corner of the picture. The <A onclick="return OpenOther('/html/g/greco_el/19/1901grec.html')" HREF="/html/g/greco_el/19/1901grec.html">painting in the Toledo Museum of Arts</A> (Ohio, USA) is the closest to that in Budapest.
CITE THIS RECORD — BIBTEX
@online{wga-r268a0ff750c51c,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Annunciation by GRECO, El},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/greco-el-r8ef3afacca162f/annunciation-r268a0ff750c51c},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
