The ''Annunciation'' is a wall painting by the
Italian mannerist artist
Jacopo Pontormo, executed in 1527–1528 as part of his commission to decorate the
Capponi Chapel in the church of
Santa Felicita,
Florence.
It is
fresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
ed around the window on the wall adjacent to Pontormo's masterpiece, the famous ''
Deposition from the Cross''. Pontormo depicts the
Annunciation
The Annunciation (from Latin '), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the biblical tale of the announcement by the ange ...
, the revelation to
Mary by the
Archangel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, in a lively composition, with both figures in an elastic
contrapposto.
Sources
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1528 paintings
Pontormo
Fresco paintings in Florence
Paintings by Pontormo
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