Two small roundels, the Angelo annunciante and the Vergine annunciata, painted in Naples in 1527–28 and now in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, are closely connected with a double-sided sheet of red-chalk studies of approximately the same date, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Together, the drawings and paintings offer an unusually concentratedContinue reading “Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation”
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Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) and the Reworking of the Annunciation
A group of three related Annunciations by Giovanni Lanfranco seems to trace the reworking of a successful invention: the small copper now in the Hermitage, the large canvas in Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle in Paris, and the later altarpiece in the Costaguti Chapel of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in Rome. The precise dating of the HermitageContinue reading “Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) and the Reworking of the Annunciation”
Inner Surfaces 