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Description: | This scene is based on the apocryphal accounts of the life of Mary. The Angel Gabriel announces to Joachim, the elderly father of Mary, that his wife Anna will bear a child. This child, Mary, will be conceived immaculately - without sin. The Angel sends a shaft of light to Joachim and points at Anna and up to heaven to emphasise the miraculous character of the event. In the 1970s the painting was attributed to Pauwels Frack (Meijer, 1975), also known as Paolo Fiammingo (c.1540-1596), an Antwerp painter, and dated to c. 1590 (Mason Rinaldi 1978). Franck moved to Italy in 1573 and was in Venice in 1580, where he is said to have worked in Tintoretto's workshop painting landscape backgrounds, before setting up as an independent master. The Glasgow work shows the artist's Flemish roots in the typical high view point used for the landscape background, and the sense of detail with many small figures engaged in harvesting and wine making. Furthermore, Joachim's figure seems to be based on one of the soldiers in Durer's Resurrection woodcut (1510, Large Passion series). Italian influences are also present in e.g. the composition, which is reminiscent of Jacopo Tintoretto's Annunciation (Scuola San Rocco, Venice); in the interior on the left, which owes much to Jacopo Bassano, and in the light palette derived from Paolo Veronese. | Subjects: | religion (Annunciation to Joachim); figure; animal; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Paolo Fiammingo (Flemish painter, 1540-1596) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Bassano, Jacopo, il vecchio (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1510-1592) Previously attributed to manner of Toeput, Lodewijk (Flemish painter and printmaker, ca. 1550-ca. 1605, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8813... | Go to resource |
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