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Annunciation (Pontormo)

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Year
  
circa 1527–1528

Artist
  
Pontormo

Period
  
Mannerism

Type
  
fresco

Created
  
1528

Subject
  
Annunciation

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Dimensions
  
368 cm × 168 cm (145 in × 66 in)

Location
  
Santa Felicita, Florence

Genres
  
Christian art, History painting

Similar
  
Pontormo artwork, Mannerism artwork, Christian art

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 frescoed around the window on the wall adjacent to Pontormo's masterpiece, the famous Deposition from the Cross. Pontormo depicts the Annunciation, 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.

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Annunciation (Pontormo) Wikipedia