The Annunciation
- Date
- c.1585
- Material
- Etching and engraving with drypoint
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund and funds given by Mark and Phoebe Weil, The Julian and Hope Edison Print Fund, and Tom Rassieur in honor of his mother, Mary Terry Rassieur
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 2:1991
NOTES
A native of the city of Urbino, Federico Barocci belonged to a generation of artists who rejected artifice and embraced instead a style based on the natural world that used veils of soft color and luminous drapery. Barocci created only four etchings; among the most beautiful is The Annunciation. The variety of tone and lightness of touch that he was able to capture in the etching allowed him to translate the delicacy and transparency of the painting surfaces to the printed form. This print reproduces an altarpiece commissioned by Francesco Maria II della Rovere for the ducal chapel in the basilica in Loreto, a town along the east coast of Italy. The duke's famous palace in Urbino, built in the 15th century, is visible through the open window.
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