Virgin Annunciate (Antonello da Messina, Palermo)

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Virgin Annunciate
Antonello da Messina, c. 1476
Oil on wood
45 × 34.5 cm
Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

The Palermo version of the Virgin Annunciate is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina. Probably painted in Sicily in 1476, it shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation.