The ''Annunciation'' is a wall painting by the

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artist Jacopo Pontormo, executed in 1527–1528 as part of his commission to decorate the Capponi Chapel in the church of

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, Italy. It is

fresco Fresco ( 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 plaster, the painting become ...

ed around the window on the wall adjacent to Pontormo's masterpiece, the famous ''

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''. Pontormo depicts the

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, the revelation to

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by the

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that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, in a lively composition, with both figures in an elastic

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Sources

* 1528 paintings

Pontormo Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci (; May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo (), was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylisti ...

Fresco paintings in Florence Paintings by Pontormo {{1520s-painting-stub