Announcing Angel

Lorenzo di Niccolò1390s -

Details

Title: Announcing Angel
Creator Lifespan: documented 1392 - 1412
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Florence
Date: 1390s -
Provenance: Alberto Crespi Collection
Physical Dimensions: w26.3 x h41.2 cm
Painter: Lorenzo di Niccolò
Description: This artist was inspired by the Neo-Gothic style as well as Spinello Aretino’s art, producing monumental works that are tinged with lyricism. As one can see from the shape of the frame, the painting of the Announcing Angel constituted the left section of a portable triptych, which has been lost. The subject, firmly anchored to the ground, kneeling with a rapt expression, has a broad outline and is characterized by a chiaroscuro that highlights the parts of the body plastically. These factors indicate the influence of Orcagna, though this painting is in line with other works by Lorenzo di Niccolò. Critics have noted a close stylistic and structural correspondence between this angel and those in the panel of the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels, in the Baroni collection in Florence, dating from 1395-1400. This helps confirm the dating of the Announcing Angel to the last decade of the fourteenth century.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: tempera on wood

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