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”