![The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels] by Cosmè Tura, c. 1470/1480, National Gallery of Art, Washington](/store/display/tura_the_annunciation_with_saint_francis_and_saint_louis.jpg)
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The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels]
c. 1470/1480 · Tempera and distemper on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For the Annunciation · 25 March
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Four narrow figures stand in a row, and one landscape runs behind them all, carrying on, darker, across the painted frames. Saint Francis holds his book; Gabriel comes with a lily; Our Lady presses her book to her body and lifts one hand; a bishop in a white mitre raises two fingers beside a curled staff. Between the second and the third the Word is made flesh, and the two stand a frame apart. The National Gallery of Art describes Francis's thin gold cross and the red wounds at his hands, feet and ribs. The bishop has changed names: from 1959 to 1985 the Gallery's catalogues named him Saint Maurelius, patron of Ferrara; he is now Louis of Toulouse, a prince who, as Smarthistory tells it, took Franciscan vows days before he was made bishop. Cosmè Tura sets a Franciscan at either end of the greeting.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Cosmè Tura', artworks list with image descriptions; read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, 'The Virgin Annunciate [middle right panel]', Cosmè Tura, 1952.2.6.c, bibliography · National Gallery of Art, 'The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels]', Cosmè Tura, 1952.2.6.a-d · Smarthistory, 'Simone Martini, Saint Louis of Toulouse' · InFerrara — official tourism portal of the Comune di Ferrara, 'Basilica di San Giorgio' · Artsy, 'The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [middle left panel]', Cosmè Tura
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)