Annunciation
Donatello, Giuseppe Lelli (cast maker)
- Artist
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Donatello
Firenze 1386/1387 – 1466 Firenze
Giuseppe Lelli
(cast maker)
Firenze
- Dated
- ca. 1435 (original), 1907 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 418 × 270 × 34 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.177
- Department
- Sculptures - Plaster casts
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Italy, Florence, Basilica di Santa Croce
Donatello’s composition was originally made for the Cavalcanti Chapel in the Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence. It was made from gray sandstone, the so-called pietra serena. It is on this work that the influences of the master’s sojourn in Rome are felt in full for the first time. All characters in the scene are “in motion” — the Virgin, who is holding a book, turns in wonderment towards Archangel Gabriel in response to his greeting.