The Annunciation Triptych is a tempera on panel painting by the Italian late Gothic artist Lorenzo Monaco , now housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Florence , Italy.
5-399: The triptych was commissioned for the church of San Procolo of Florence, where Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari saw it, but attributed it to Giotto . It was recognized as a work by Lorenzo Monaco by Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle in 1864. It has been variously dated from 1408 to 1418. The work had originally different cusps (perhaps with heads of prophets) and a predella, which
10-631: Is now lost. The painting includes compartments divided into two panels surmounted by cusps, each sharing a golden background. The central painting depicts the Virgin, on a throne barely under her dress visible, on the right, and a hovering Angel of the Annunciation on the left. Behind her are parts of a house, including a double mullioned window , while next to her head is the Holy Ghost dove. The drapes feature intricate arabesques , perhaps influenced by
15-633: The International Gothic style introduced by Gherardo Starnina and Lorenzo Ghiberti . San Procolo, Florence San Proculo , previously dedicated to the saints Proculus and Nicomedes, is a Romanesque -style, Roman Catholic church located in Via de' Giraldi in Florence , Tuscany, Italy. A church at the site was present by 13th century. The façade is in rough stone with a central rose window and two large side windows. Three other open windows along
20-669: The church of St Paul. After the second world war, the church was used to house the indigent. It was heavily damaged by 1966 Flood of the Arno River . San Procolo heals a boy by Gaetano Piattoli , is on the main altar. Most of the other works of art previously in the church were moved to other sites or destroyed. In 2018, Michel Elefteriades acquired the San Procolo church from the noble Salviati family , to make it an art gallery in which he would exhibit his medieval religious art collection and creations. But in 2019, after Elefteriades bought
25-471: The sides on Via Pandolfini. The building was renovated from 1739 to 1743, when it became the seat of the Confraternity of Sant'Antonio Abate dei Macellai , one of the four Flagellant brotherhoods known as buche , characterized by the practice of flogging , strict discipline, and night time prayer meetings. The other three Brotherhoods were of the church of San Jacopo sopr'Arno , the church of St Jerome, and
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