Virgin Annunciate (Antonello da Messina, Munich)

Virgin Annunciate
Virgin Annunciate
Artist	Antonello da Messina
Year	1473
Medium	Oil on wood
Dimensions	42.5 cm× 32.8 cm(16.7 in× 12.9 in)
Location	Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Accession	8054
Website	www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/JzG6R7ZGWO

Last updated April 11, 2025

The Munich Virgin Annunciate is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, executed in 1473.^[1] Like the more famous Palermo version of the same subject, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation.

References

↑ Walter Melion, Lee Palmer Wandel (2015). Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image. BRILL. p. 86. ISBN 9789004300514 . Retrieved 2020-01-12.

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[1] Walter Melion, Lee Palmer Wandel (2015). Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image. BRILL. p. 86. ISBN 9789004300514 . Retrieved 2020-01-12.

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Paintings	Saint Jerome and Abraham panels (c. 1455) Salting Madonna (c. 1460–1469; disputed) San Gregorio Polyptych (1473) Virgin Annunciate (Munich; 1473) Annunciation (1474) Saint Jerome in His Study (c. 1474–1475) Calvary (1475) Portrait of a Man (London; 1475–1476) San Cassiano Altarpiece (1475–1476) Virgin Annunciate (Palermo; c. 1476) Christ at the Column (c. 1476–1478) Saint Sebastian (c. 1477–1479)
Painting series	Crucifixion (c. 1454–1455, 1475) Ecce Homo (c. 1470–1475)
Related	Male portraits by Antonello da Messina