The Annunciation
Unknown Greek, Greek
about 1540-1585
Tempera on canvas on wood panel
Overall: 18 1/4 × 14 5/8 in. (46.4 × 37.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
P.894.25
Geography
Place Made: Greece, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, upper center: Ho Euangelesmos [The Annunciation]; upper left: Ho Arch[angelos] Ga[b]riel [Archangel Gabriel]; upper right: M[ate]r Th[eo]u [Mother of God]
Course History
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2022
History 10.02, Archival Research, M. Cecillia Gaposchkin, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Exhibition honoring opening of the Christian A. Johnson Music and Arts Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, October 11-November 3, 1968.
Permanent Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18, 1977-July 9, 1978.
Permanent Exhibition of Selected European Paintings from the College Collection, European Room, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1975.
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-December 1, 1972.
Provenance
Purchased in Greece by Professor George Dana Lord (1863-1945); sold to present collection, 1894.
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