1460
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Annunciation is a 1460 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting depicts a scene from the Bible, The Annunciation. In the foreground, a woman in a red dress kneels on the floor, looking up at an angel. The angel is dressed in white and has large wings. He is holding a scroll with black text. In the background, there is an arched doorway and a window with green panes. A man with a beard and a halo is visible in the top left corner. The woman and the angel are in a room with a tiled floor. The room has a high ceiling with arches. The colors used in the painting are red, green, yellow, tan, olive, and pink. The painting is a woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, yellow, tan, olive, pink. To learn more about this technique, look up the term "woodcut".
This 15th-century German artist carved vivid religious scenes into metal and wood, then hand-painted them in bright, symbolic colors.
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