[1] Unmentioned in Vasari's Lives of the Artists, the painting is usually attributed to the years just after Pontormo's work on the Capponi Chapel.
Originally on the Pinadori family altar, it has remained in the church for which it was painted for almost its whole existence.
While, on the left, in the background, there are two mysterious people to be identified, perhaps as St. Joseph and Zacharias.
[2] It inspired Bill Viola's video work The Greeting (1995), which for a time was exhibited in a room next to the painting.
Divergenti vie della maniera (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2014) and Bill Viola.