ID: 700009511 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009511	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Annunciation (panel painting (painting by form); Tommaso del Mazza (Italian, active 1377 - 1392); previous at...; about 1390–1395; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 71.PB.21; )

Note: Possibly created for Church of San Francesco, Pienza, commissioned by the Piccolomini Family for the family chapel. The Annunciation takes place in a spatially ambiguous structure in which Mary appears too large. Tooled haloes, gold, and vivid colors heighten the intensity of the moment and add to the overall impression of sumptuousness. This panel was created by Tommaso del Mazza, until recently known only as the Master of St. Verdiana, who worked in the late Gothic style during the Renaissance in Florence.

Titles:

The Annunciation (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

panel painting (painting by form) [300033656] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1390–1395

Creator Display:

Tommaso del Mazza (Italian, active 1377 - 1392); previous attribution: Giovanni del Biondo (Italian, died 1398, active 1356) [preferred]

painter Mazza, Tommaso del (Italian artist, active late 14th century) [500011318]

painter Giovanni del Biondo (Italian painter, active 1356, died 1399) Qualifier: formerly attributed to [500019284]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 71.PB.21

Display Materials: tempera and gold leaf on panel

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

Dimensions: 128.3 × 92.1 cm (50 1/2 × 36 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Annunciation [901001052]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Possibly Church of San Francesco, Pienza, commissioned by the Piccolomini Family for the family chapel. by 1929 - early 1940s Robert Langton Douglas, 1864 - 1951 - 1951 Private Collection [sold, Sotheby's, London, January 31, 1951, lot 18, for 400 pounds,- to Soames.] 1951 - Soames by 1954 - 1959 Julius H. Weitzner, 1896 - 1986, sold to Heinz Kisters, 1959. 1959 - 1971 Heinz Kisters, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1971.

Inscriptions: inscribed in frame: ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MIHI SECUNDUM VERBUM TUU[M]; words projecting from angel's mouth: AVE GRATIA PLENA DOM[INUS TECUM]; text from Isaiah 7:14 is inscribed on book held by the Virgin.

Related Works:

	former location was .... San Francesco [700009512]
	..........church (building); architect: unknown Italian; 13th century; Pienza (Siena, Toscana, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TG...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Annunciation	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)