1492, Sandro Botticelli, The Annunciation -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation is set in a classicizing architectural interior rendered with one-point perspective to create the illusion of depth. The incised lines visible on the panel's surface are evidence of Botticelli's working method to construct the complex composition. A row of pillars divides the space occupied by the angel Gabriel from the intimate bedchamber of the Virgin, who kneels in humility as she receives his divine message. The panel was almost certainly commissioned as a private devotional image rather than part of a larger work. While the identity of the patron is not known, the painting was in the famed Barberini collection in Rome in the seventeenth century.
1492, Sandro Botticelli, The Annunciation -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation is set in a classicizing architectural interior rendered with one-point perspective to create the illusion of depth. The incised lines visible on the panel's surface are evidence of Botticelli's working method to construct the complex composition. A row of pillars divides the space occupied by the angel Gabriel from the intimate bedchamber of the Virgin, who kneels in humility as she receives his divine message. The panel was almost certainly commissioned as a private devotional image rather than part of a larger work. While the identity of the patron is not known, the painting was in the famed Barberini collection in Rome in the seventeenth century.