The Annunciation with two Kneeling Girls Receiving Dowries
Relief
ca 1450-1475 (made)
ca 1450-1475 (made)
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The composition is closely related to an altarpiece by Antoniazzo Romano in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, showing three girls presented by Cardinal Torrecremata (d. 1468) to the Virgin Annunciate. The altarpiece appears to have been executed between 1495 and 1508 for the Capella del' Annunziata in which the Confraternita dell' Annunziata, founded by Cardinal Torrecremata with the object of supplying dowries to poor girls, had its seat. A number of paintings by Antoniazzo Romano are known to have been based on earlier prototypes. It is possible that this relief was the model for the altarpiece.
Object details
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| Title | The Annunciation with two Kneeling Girls Receiving Dowries (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Marble carved in relief |
| Brief description | Panel-relief, marble, 'The Annunciation of two Kneeling Girls Receiving Dowries', by an unknown artist, Italy, probably Roman, ca. 1450-1475 |
| Physical description | The Virgin kneels on the right, handing the bags containing dowries to two kneeling girls; to the left the angel, who has first alighted, kneels holding a spray of lilies in his left hand. Below is an almost obliterated inscription. The relief is broken vertically down the centre and the head of one of the two kneeling girls has been destroyed. |
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| Gallery label | The composition is closely related to an altarpiece by Antoniazzo Romano in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, showing three girls presented by Cardinal Torrecremata (d. 1468) to the Virgin Annunciate. The altarpiece appears to have been executed between 1495 and 1508 for the Capella del' Annunziata in which the Confraternita dell' Annunziata, founded by Cardinal Torrecremata with the object of supplying dowries to poor girls, had its seat. A number of paintings by Antoniazzo Romano are known to have been based on earlier prototypes. It is possible that this relief was the model for the altarpiece. |
| Object history | It is possible that this relief was the model for an altarpiece by Antoniazzo Romano in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome (ca. 1495-1508). Purchased from the Gigli-Campana Collection. |
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| Summary | The composition is closely related to an altarpiece by Antoniazzo Romano in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, showing three girls presented by Cardinal Torrecremata (d. 1468) to the Virgin Annunciate. The altarpiece appears to have been executed between 1495 and 1508 for the Capella del' Annunziata in which the Confraternita dell' Annunziata, founded by Cardinal Torrecremata with the object of supplying dowries to poor girls, had its seat. A number of paintings by Antoniazzo Romano are known to have been based on earlier prototypes. It is possible that this relief was the model for the altarpiece. |
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| Accession number | 7565-1861 |
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| Record created | September 12, 2002 |
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