Loading
Announcing Angel
Lorenzo di Niccolò1390s -
Museo Diocesano Milano
Milano, Italy
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
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.