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Description: | For this painting, the 'artist has employed a curious mixture of traditional Venetian colouring and brushwork enlivened by an eccentricity of vision. Most painters [...] emphasise the static nature of the event, but Maffei prefers to interpret the movement of the angel as experienced by the Virgin. The brilliant streaks of colour and light seem exaggerated but they would appear much more naturalistic in a dark church, especially as such pictures were usually also seen from below [...]. The painting was produced for a convent in Padua in the late 1650s and remained there until the convent was closed in 1822.' (Wright, 2002, p. 33). | Subjects: | religion (Annunciation) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maffei, Francesco (Italian painter, 1605-1660) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8715... | Go to resource |
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