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Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Annunciation
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Annunciation

Artist Giovanni Bonazza (Italian, 1654-1736)
Dateca. 1730
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 22 x 18 3/8 in. (55.9 x 46.7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 27 1/2 x 23 7/8 x 6 in. (69.9 x 60.6 x 15.2 cm)
ClassificationsEuropean art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number78.634A
Terms
  • Religion
  • Christian
  • New Testament
  • Life of the Virgin
  • Life of Christ
  • Terracotta
  • Late Baroque
  • Venice
On View
On view
DescriptionTerracotta Bozzetto depicting the Annunciation. The angel appears to the right, Mary the Virgin is in the foreground on the left. Mary bends toward the angel. The angel and symbols of the heavens radiate on the left side. The right side is balanced by the cascading draperies.

Label TextGiovanni Bonazza Italian, 1654–1736 Annunciation, ca. 1730 Terracotta Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 78.634a
Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Carlo Tagliapietra
ca. 1730
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2018.
Marx Reichlich
ca. 1490
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Bonazza
1730
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
No Date
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.
Naddo Ceccarelli
ca. 1339-1347
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Antoine Coysevox
after 1702
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Eustache Le Sueur
1617-1690
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Francesco Solimena
ca. 1700
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Timothy Cole
1917