The Virgin Annunciate is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

[3] "The painting was bequeathed to the Museo Nazionale (later, the Palazzo Abatellis) in 1906 by the Cavaliere Di Giovanni, who had purchased it from the Colluzio family in Palermo..."[4] As is typical in individual portraits by the same artist, Mary is shown three-quarter-length.

[5] He had used the blue cloak in the shape of two triangles a year earlier in another work on the same subject now in Munich's Alte Pinakothek.

The unusually simple depiction of Mary dispenses with the lush brocade folds in Antonello's later works[8] and the gold background used by earlier artists, showing her simply as a young Jewish woman surprised by the archangel's words.

[7] With its few heavy folds,[9] her simple woollen garment anticipates the High Renaissance,[3] whilst the diagonally-placed lectern seems to break out of the picture plane and open up to the viewer.