The Annunciation

Unknown Greek, Greek

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about 1540-1585

Tempera on linen 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

History 10.02, Archival Research and the Production of History, Leslie Butler, Summer 2024

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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