1528
oil
canvas
From the collection of Capitoline Museums
Dominant colour
Annunciation is a 1528 oil by Benvenuto Tisi, a Mannerism work, held at Capitoline Museums.
This painting shows two women in a room with stone columns. One woman, on the right, is dressed in red and blue and is kneeling. She is holding a book and looking down. The other woman, on the left, is wearing a red and black robe and is sitting. She has wings and is holding a branch of white flowers. Above them, an angel is holding a cross. In the background, there is a dark room with a fireplace. This painting is held at the Capitoline Museums.
Benvenuto Tisi (Italian: ; 1481 – September 6, 1559), also known as Il Garofalo (Italian: ), was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara.
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