Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Variations

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi
The Annunciation with St Ansanus and St Maxima
1333
tempera and gold on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence


Pedro Serra
The Annunciation
ca. 1399
tempera on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giovanni dal Ponte
The Annunciation with Saints
1434
tempera on panel
Monastero di Santa Maria, Rosano

Filippo Lippi
The Annunciation
ca. 1440
tempera on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)
The Annunciation
ca. 1445-50
tempera on panel
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Master of Liesborn (German painter)
The Annunciation
ca. 1465-90
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Leonardo da Vinci
The Annunciation
ca. 1472
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Anonymous German Artist
The Annunciation
ca. 1500-1515
painted wood relief
Musée du Louvre

Juan de Flandes
The Annunciation
ca. 1508
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean Duvet
The Annunciation
1520
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Timoteo Viti and Giuliano Presutti
The Annunciation
ca. 1522-24
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Fra Paolino
The Annunciation
before 1547
oil on canvas
Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata, Vinci

attributed to Giulio Clovio
The Annunciation
before 1578
drawing (design for manuscript illumination)
British Museum

Federico Barocci
The Annunciation
ca. 1582-84
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Giovanni Brini
The Annunciation
before 1599
oil on panel
Compagnia di Sant'Antonio Abate, Florence

Julia Margaret Cameron
Study after Perugino - The Annunciation
1864
albumen print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Edward Burne-Jones
The Annunciation
ca. 1876
watercolor and gouache on paper
(reduced-size version of oil painting)
British Museum

from To Marguerite

Who ordered that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled?
Who renders vain their deep desire?
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

– Matthew Arnold (1852)