Annunciation (Lippi, Munich)

The Annunciation, also known as Murate Annunciation, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi, finished around 1443–1450, originally for the Monastero delle Murate, in Floarance.

[1] It is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

[2] It depicts the Annunciation—the announcement made by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and bear Jesus Christ.

Gabriel is depicted as particularly youthful, with the a tall slender Mary—standing behind a small lectern—almost appearing as a "porcelain statue at an altar or shrine", according to Susan von Rohr Scaff.

[1] Lippi also includes additional figures of witnessing angels.