03 — ARTWORK
The Annunciation
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 280 x 210 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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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. c. 1557 Oil on canvasA woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas' has become almost a synonym for an oil painting, but it was not until around 1500 that it began to rival the wooden panel (which was more expensive and took longer to prepare) as the standard support for movable paintings (the transition came later in Northern Europe than in Italy). Canvas is not suitable for painting on until it has been coated with a ground, which isolates the fabric from the paint; otherwise it will absorb too much paint, only very rough effects will be obtainable, and parts of the fabric may be rotted by the pigments. It must also be made taut on a stretcher or by some other means., 280 x 210 cm Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
In this painting the miracle of the Annunciation is also conceived as a vision. But the use of colours and the conception of the figures in this painting are of an inferior quality to those in the marvellous version in Venice.
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title = {The Annunciation by TIZIANO Vecellio},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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