MONSTRANCE
Annunciation (Recanati Annunciation) — Lorenzo Lotto
Mid Edition

Annunciation (Recanati Annunciation)

Date c. 1534
Collection Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
Subject Annunciation
Season Advent
Master 3,489 px
License Public domain

Sizes

11×14 in$59
sheet 11×14 in · image 9.9×14 in · archival margin · 249 dpi
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About this painting

A cat is running for its life. It bolts across the tiles between Gabriel and the Virgin with its back arched, and both institutions that publish on this picture read it as evil put to flight by the divine presence. Everything else has stopped: the angel kneels, the Eternal Father hangs overhead, and Mary has turned her back on the messenger to face out at you with her hands raised. Only the cat is moving.

Sources: Turismo Marche (Regione Marche) and Marca Maceratese, entries on Lorenzo Lotto's Annunciazione, Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, with the ownership and standing from Art Bonus (Ministero della Cultura); all read 2026-08-27.

And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,489 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.