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Mirabello Cavalori

Annunciate Virgin, ca. 1560

Description

Maker

  • Mirabello Cavalori, ca. 1530-1572, Italian

Title

Annunciate Virgin

Year

ca. 1560

Medium

Oil on panel

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • panel

Dimensions

144.8 x 86.4 cm (57 x 34 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Unsigned

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Lyra Brown Nickerson Bequest

Object Number

16.464X

About

This scene from the Annunciation is all that remains of a commission for the Church of Santa Margherita, the devotional center of a hospital and monastery in the Tuscan city of Prato. Its daring color and figural exaggeration are aspects of a late-Renaissance Mannerist style for which the Florentine artist Mirabello Cavalori was known. Like many candlelit altarpieces, the painting was damaged by fire, destroying the figure of the Angel Gabriel. At left, his surviving hand draws the gaze of the Virgin Mary, who is seated in a 16th-century palazzo near a balcony overlooking a mountainous landscape. Her modest but luxurious attire represents Prato’s renowned textile industry and suggests as patrons the powerful families and guilds under which it flourished. Her brilliantly striped headcovering and deep-hued gown and sleeves attest to the artisanal expertise of the city’s weavers and wool dyers. Draped across Mary’s lap, a gold-edged cloth serves as a scapular, or work apron. A basket at her feet is filled with bobbins, shears, and bits of lace, symbols of the unfinished task to which she has been called.

Unsigned

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Intermission

December 16, 2016 - July 2, 2017

From the Reserve I

April 9 - August 3, 1994

Italian Painting

April 6 - August 25, 1990

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Annunciate Virgin with the accession number of 16.464X. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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