ARHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lorenzo Di Credi, San Lorenzo, Florence, Gabriel
16 Jan 2017
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Annunciation, by the italian renaissance artists leonardo da vinci and andrea del. Verrocchio, dates from circa 1472 1475 and is in the uffizi gallery of florence, Leonardo"s early painting of the annunciation owes much to the influence of his master, andrea del verrocchio. However it is considered to be da vinci"s first major work, a large painting executed by his own hand with, perhaps, the help of verrocchio"s workshop. In fact the attribution to leonardo was only presented in 1867 and the debates about the parts actually painted by him continued for a long time. Importantly certain aspects of the painting such as the composition, the. Archangel gabriel and the landscapes are pure da vinci but agreement on many aspects of attributions remain far from unanimous. Some details of the painting, such as the wings of the angel, have been repainted by another hand and the marble sarcophagus has been copied from a carving by.
