Annunciation of the Virgin Mary

Bartolomeo della Gatta was a Tuscan painter and Camaldolese monk who brought distinctive spiritual sensitivity to his work for churches in Arezzo and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. This Annunciation of the Virgin Mary was created around 1487 and is now held at the Musée du Petit Palais The Annunciation—Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God—was one of the most frequently painted subjects in Christian art, serving as the symbolic hinge between Old and New Testamen

Oil on panel with careful figure drawing and landscape setting characteristic of Tuscan painting. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Bartolomeo della Gatta's period.