{"id":10116,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"the-cestello-annunciation-by-botticelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/the-cestello-annunciation-by-botticelli\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cestello Annunciation by Botticelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cestello Annunciation by Botticelli\" alt=\"Cestello Annunciation by Botticelli\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/botticelli-annunciation-halfsize-ad1fa4601099.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Cestello Annunciation Sandro Botticelli 1489-90, tempera on panel, 150 x 156 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <i>Cestello Annunciation<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10035\">Early Renaissance<\/a> artist Sandro Botticelli, the artist depicts the moment just after the Archangel Gabriel&#8217;s arrival when he announces to the Virgin Mary that the Holy Ghost will soon pay her a visit as related in Luke&#8217;s gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botticelli has structured the room using <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10121\">Brunelleschi&#8217;<\/a>s perspective. Commissioned in 1489, the <i>Cestello Annunciation<\/i> by Botticelli was painted for the Florentine convent of Cestello (now <em>Santa Maria Maddalena de&#8217;Pazzi<\/em>) in Borgo Pinti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botticelli&#8217;s use of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#perspective\">perspective<\/a> in the <em>Cestello Annunciation<\/em> takes the viewer through the room along the orthogonal lines of the floor tiles to a point in the far distant landscape. The structured room setting of the <em>Cestello Annunciation<\/em> by Botticelli with its geometric lines contrasts with the figures painted in a lively manner with vibrant, flowing draperies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Gabriel kneels before Mary, Botticelli depicts him with an open mouth indicating the flow of words which are inscribed beneath him in Latin on the original frame of the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Cestello Annunciation by Early Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, the artist depicts the moment just after the Archangel Gabriel&#8217;s arrival when he announces to the Virgin Mary that the Holy Ghost will soon pay her a visit as related in Luke&#8217;s gospel. Botticelli has structured the room using Brunelleschi&#8217;s perspective. Commissioned in 1489, the [&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-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","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=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}