Иконостас "Изгнание из рая, Благовещение" {2664} Altarpiece "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Annunciation"
история:
Angelico painted this altarpiece during the first years of his artistic career.
In 1611, to collaborate to the financing of the bell tower, the panel was sold to the Duke Mario Farnese.
In 1861 it was transferred to the Prado, thanks to the mediation of the painter Federico Madrazo, director of the museum at that time.
автор:
Анджелико Ф.
Fra Angelico
перемещение:
храм доминиканского монастыря св. Доминика ( - 1611)
church of the Dominican convent of Santo Domenico de Fiesole
князь Марио Фарнезе (1611 - )
Duke Mario Farnese
Duke of Lerma, minister of Philip III
Dominican church of Valladolid
Мадрид
Madrid
перемещение:
монастырь кармелиток ( - 1861)
convent of the Royal Discalced Carmelites
музей Прадо (1861 - )
Museo del Prado
композиция:
панель
main panel
композиция:
Изгнание из рая
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Благовещение
Annunciation
композиция:
The main panel represents two episodes related to each other: The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:8-24) and Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38).
In this last and outstanding scene, the painter has placed in the foreground the Archangel Gabriel bowing to Virgin Mary, under a portico with double semicircular arch.
The hand of God - at the left upper angle - sends a golden ray with the Holy Ghost down to the Virgin, consistent to the Gospel words.
The figures stand out against the architectural setting. In this early work, the artist has represented a rational space by means of monofocal perspective, as it would be developed, in a scientific way, along the Renaissance.
The painter uses the Gothic tradition gold leaf to underline the more brilliant and more emblematic elements though, at the same time, he makes a naturalistic survey of lighting, already typical of Renaissance culture.
