{"id":10113,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"the-annunciation-to-the-virgin-an-early-fine-art-work-by-leonardo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/the-annunciation-to-the-virgin-an-early-fine-art-work-by-leonardo-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annunciation to the Virgin, An Early fine Art Work by Leonardo da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Annunciation to the Virgin, An Early Fine Art Work by Leonardo da Vinci\" alt=\"The Annunciation to the Virgin, An Early Fine Art Work by Leonardo da Vinci\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/leonardos-annunciation-265-e3deca9b3d28.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Annunciation of the Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci 1472-75, tempera on wood 98 x 217 cm (38 \u00bd x 85 3\/8&#8243; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Click here to see larger image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This painting by Leonardo da Vinci of <em>The Annunciation to the Virgin<\/em> is an early fine art work executed by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a> master <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=6\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a> while he was still in the art workshop of Renaissance master, Andrea del <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10142\">Verrocchio<\/a>. While much grounded in the static style of the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10052\">Quattrocentro<\/a>, or 14th century, a glimpse of the Leonardo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10049\">High Renaissance<\/a> we have come to know can be seen in the smoky vista of this fine art work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fine art work has been dated by the depiction of the sarcophagus, similar to one Medici sarcophagus now in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Also noteworthy of Leonardo\u2019s style in this fine art work is the strong <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#chiaroscuro\">chiaroscuro<\/a> of the modeling of the clothing of the figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting by Leonardo da Vinci of The Annunciation to the Virgin is an early fine art work executed by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci while he was still in the art workshop of Renaissance master, Andrea del Verrocchio. While much grounded in the static style of the Quattrocentro, or 14th century, a glimpse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}