The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors (Lippi)

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Annunciation

Filippo Lippi, 1440-1445

Tempera on panel, 153 × 144 cm

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

The Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi. it is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

The composition pivots around the Virgin, who occupies the centre of the scene. In the background, on the right, two small figures of women are riding a stair. The two donors are kneeling behind a cordonata: the fact that they were represented in natural size (i.e., in the same size as the religious figures) was a novelty for the time.

[edit] See also

• Lippi's Annunciation (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome)
• Lippi's Annunciation (Munich)