Leonardo da Vinci: Annunciation
Artist	Leonardo da Vinci  (1452–1519)       Alternative names Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo Description Italian painter, engineer, astronomer, philosopher, anatomist and mathematician Date of birth/death 15 April 1452  2 May 1519  Location of birth/death Anchiano  Clos Lucé  Work period from 1466 until 1519 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1466-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1519-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Work location Florence (1466–1482), Milan (1483–1499), Mantua (1499), Venice (1500), Florence (1500–1506), Milan (1506–1513), Florence (1507–1508), Rome (1513–1516), Amboise (1513–1518) Authority file : Q762 VIAF: 24604287 ISNI: 000000012124423X ORCID: 0000-0002-3013-9914 ULAN: 500010879 LCCN: n79034525 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q762
Title	Annunciation
Object type	painting
Genre	religious art
Description	Annunciation
Depicted people	Mary  Gabriel
Date	circa 1472
Medium	oil on panel medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions	height: 98 cm (38.5 in); width: 217 cm (85.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,98U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,217U174728
Collection	Uffizi Gallery    Native name Galleria degli Uffizi Location Florence Coordinates 43° 46′ 06″ N, 11° 15′ 19″ E   Established 1581 (built), 1765 (open to public) Website www.uffizi.it  Authority file : Q51252 VIAF: 169401840 ISNI: 0000000121721622 ULAN: 500125191 LCCN: n79007196 NLA: 36540829 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q51252
Accession number	00285888 (Uffizi Gallery)
References	Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, V  https://www.wga.hu/html/l/leonardo/01/2annunc.html  Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID: 1618  Google Arts & Culture asset ID: sAErNLFH1KFYmw  Bpk-ID: 00016132  Zeri image ID: 34358  Uffizi artwork ID: annunciation  Florentine musea catalogue ID: 00285888  1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, p. 107
Authority file	: Q1217213 GND: 4415837-3 BNF: 123561252
Source/Photographer	Leonardo Da Vinci,The Annnuciation [1]
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THE PAINTING WORK OF LEONARDO DA VINCI

1472-75 Oil on panel, 98 x 217 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence,Italy.

The archangel Gabriel is kneeling as a dignified profile figure and raising his right hand in greeting to Mary, indicating her divine pregnancy. The Virgin has stopped reading and reacts to the Annunciation with an expression of deep respect and by gesturing with her left hand. There is a conspicuous perspectival mistake: her right arm had to be painted too long proportionally, so that, despite her seated position, it would still be able to depict the impressive position other hand over the prie-dieu. Leonardo depicted Mary in a three-quarter profile in front of the corner of a room. All three spatial coordinates - height, width and depth - converge on this point, thus creating a sense of depth in the picture as well as enhancing the importance of Mary. Her head clearly contrasts with the dark wall and her body is emphatically framed by the cornerstones whose parallel lines are converging on her.

The work came to the Uffizi in 1867 from the monastery of San Bartolomeo of Monteoliveto, near Florence. It was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio until 1869, when some critics recognised it as a youthful work by Leonardo, executed around 1472-1475, when he was still an apprentice in the workshop of his master, Andrea del Verrocchio. The sacred scene is set in the garden of a Florentine palace, with a landscape on the background which is already peculiarly Leonardesque, for the magic and unreal atmosphere created by mountains, water and sky. Leonardo's personality is pointed out also in the beautiful drapery of the Virgin and the Angel, while the marble table in front of her probably quotes the tomb of Piero and Giovanni dei Medici in the church of San Lorenzo sculpted by Verrocchio in this period.