Artist: Neroccio de’ Landi, Italian, 1447–1500, The Annunciation, ca. 1480, Tempera on panel, 49 × × cm (19 5/16 × 50 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.), Neroccio de’ Landi, who was an accomplished sculptor as well as a painter, is best known for the elegance and grace of his renderings of the Virgin, saints, and angels, which made him one of the most admired and sought-after painters among late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collectors of Italian Renaissance art. A half-moon-shaped panel such as this, known as a lunette, was intended to adorn the upper register of a large altarpiece. The

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