The Annunciation
ca. 1600
Medium
Silk and metallic thread
Dimensions
16 3/4 × 12 1/2 in. (42.5 × 31.8 cm) Framed: 24 3/4 × 20 3/4 in. (62.9 × 52.7 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Embroidered
Culture
Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Helen Costantino Fioratti, 2021
Accession Number
2021.377
Tags
About the Artist
Federico Barocci · 1535–1612
Federico Barocci (c. 1535–1612) was an Italian painter from Urbino whose luminous, emotionally tender religious paintings made him one of the most original and influential artists of the late sixteenth century, bridging Mannerism and the early Baroque. Born in Urbino, the city of Raphael, he studied under Battista Franco and traveled to Rome, where he absorbed the lessons of Raphael, Correggio, an...