Gaudenzio Ferrari (1475-1546), The Annunciation to Joachim and Anna, 1544-45
Detached fresco transferred to canvas,
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Gaudenzio Ferrari (1475-1546), ''The Annunciation to Joachim and Anna'', 1544-45 Detached fresco transferred to canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan {{PD-art}}
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FERRARI, Gaudenzio
(b. ca. 1475, Valduggia, d. 1546, Milano)
The Annunciation to Joachim and Anna
1544-45
Detached fresco transferred to canvas, 190 x 135 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
In his late frescoes, such as this one, Ferrari appears to have recovered the more spontaneous manner of his early work. The tormented muscular contortions and the forced gestures are simpler here, and the figures appear engaged in quiet, intense conversation. The elements of the composition are densely interwoven, yet there remains a touch of the artist's previous "stage-set" painting in the daring oblique perspective and the looming city, with its architectonic definition. It is as if Ferrari were painting an enormous predella in pure, decided colours that create rousing harmonies of pictorial splendour.
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Author: FERRARI, Gaudenzio
Title: The Annunciation to Joachim and Anna
Time-line: 1501-1550
School: Italian
Form: painting