Who painted The Annunciation?

Sandro Botticelli painted The Annunciation in 1485.

What Bible passage does The Annunciation depict?

The Annunciation depicts the biblical scene from Luke 1:28.

Where is The Annunciation located?

The Annunciation is housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue / 82nd Street, New York.

The Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli

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The Cestello Annunciation, is a painting in tempera on panel made in 1489 by Sandro Botticelli. It was painted for the patron Benedetto di Ser Giovanni Guardi to adorn the church of the Florentine monastery of Cestello, which is now known as Santa Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi.

The subject of the painting is the Annunciation, in which the archangel Gabriel visits the Virgin Mary to 'announce' to her (hence 'Annuciation') that she has been chosen by God to bear the Christ child should she accept this invitation. Her 'fiat' (Let it be done to me) is her response. Underneath the painting on its original frame are words in Latin from St. Luke's Gospel 1:35 "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee."

Details

Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Created: c. 1485
Medium: tempera on panel
Dimension: 31cm × 19cm
Passage: Luke 1:28
Housed at: Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue / 82nd Street, New York

Found in: Luke, Luke 1, 15th century, Annunciation

Luke 1:28

28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

Luke 1:28 · World English Bible

The artist

Sandro Botticelli

1445 - 1510

Florence, Italy

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.