San Gallo Annunciation

The San Gallo Annunciation is an oil-on-panel painting by Andrea del Sarto, executed c. 1513–1514, now in the Palatine Gallery in Florence.

[1] It was the middle of three works the artist produced for the Augustinian monastery the Church of San Gallo in Florence, between Noli me tangere and The Disputation on the Trinity, as recorded in the Anonimo Magliabechiano manuscript and in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

When Florence was besieged, that monastery's goods were moved to San Jacopo tra i Fossi within the city walls and its buildings razed in 1531 by Charles V's troops.

theorised that that predella wholly or partly survived and is now divided up between the National Gallery of Ireland and Warwick Castle.

Alessandro Conti suggested in 1968 that they are David and Bathsheba; Petrioli Tofani said in 1985 that the figures are Susannah and the Elders; and Antonio Natali said in 1989 that they are Adam and Eve, in reference to Augustinian exegesis.