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Find the cat asleep on a cushion in the lower left corner, then the tall building framed by the window between the Virgin and the kneeling angel.
This etching and engraving, Barocci’s most famous print, repeats the altarpiece he painted from 1582 to 1584 for the basilica at Loreto, commissioned by the Duke of Urbino. Barocci published the print himself, and its copper plate, found in his studio when he died, is the only one of his plates to survive. The plate entered the Calcografia in Rome in the 1700s, which is why the image can still be printed today.
Etching and engraving on paper · Plate: 43.8 × 31.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- The Annunciation
- Artist
- Federico Barocci Italian, c. 1535-1612
- Date
- c. 1585
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 43.8 × 31.1 cm (17 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.