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  • Record Number: 4342
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Gordon , Dillian.
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  • Title: Zanobi Strozzi's "Annunciation" in the National Gallery [the recently discovered signature on the "Annunciation" makes it easier to identify Strozzi's work from other pupils of Fra Angelico; the author compares Strozzi's "Annunciation" to others done around the same time by Fra Angelico and his workshop].
  • Source URL: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 140, 1145 (August 1998): 517-524. Link Info target = '_blank'>Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 140, 1145 (August 1998): 517-524. Link Info
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Angelico, Fra, Painter Art History- Painting Florence, Church of S. Francesco al Monte (Also Known as S. Salvatore al Monte), a Male Monastery of Franciscan Observants- Annunciation Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Art Strozzi, Zanobi, Painter- Annunc
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Illustrations: Eleven illustrations. Figure One Detail of Figure Two, showing the concealed signature. Figure Two Zanobi Strozzi, Annunciation, circa 1440-1445, egg tempera on panel (London, National Gallery). Figure Three Partial reconstruction of Figure Two (main panel without predella or frame). Figure Four Annunciation, attributed to Fra Angelico, circa 1426 (Madrid, Prado). Figure Five Annunciation, attributed to Fra Angelico, circa 1432- 1434 and circa 1438-1440 (S. Giovanni Valdarno, S. Maria delle Grazie). Figure Six Fra Angelico, Annunciation, circa 1432-1434 (Cortona, Museo Diocesano). Figure Seven Neri di Bicci, Annunciation,1455, panel (Florence, S. Maria Novella). Figure Eight Anonymous fifteenth-century Florentine artist, Annunciation, circa 1451, panel (S. Martino a Mensola). Figure Nine Zanobi Strossi, Virgin and Child with angels, 1434-1439, panel (Florence, Museo di S. Marco). Figure Ten Zanobi Strossi and assistant, Virgin and Child enthroned with saints, circa 1455-1457, panel (Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais). Figure Eleven The Master of the Buckingham Palace Madonna,The Madonna of humility with angels, circa 1440, panel (Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth).
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  • Author's Affiliation: National Gallery, London
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00076287
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