Sarteano Annunciation

The Sarteano Annunciation is a c.1546 oil on canvas painting by Domenico Beccafumi in the church of San Martino in Foro in Sarteano[1].

One of the painter's last works, it is recorded in a 1548 document as being produced for a man named Gabriello di Sarteano. The document also mentioned that it had been commissioned around 1545 and that it had "more figures", possibly on a now-lost predella. Two years after the commission the painter complained to the governors of Siena that he had still not been paid for the work[2].

References
  1. (in Italian) Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Firenze 1967.
  2. "Encyclopedia Britannica article".
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