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accession number: 1950.251
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The Annunciation, c. 1580. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588), and Workshop. Oil on canvas; framed: 176 x 159.5 x 9.5 cm (69 5/16 x 62 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 150 x 133.4 cm (59 1/16 x 52 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1950.251
title: The Annunciation
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creation date: c. 1580
creation date earliest: 1575
creation date latest: 1585
current location: 118 Italian Renaissance
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Italy, 16th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) - artist
* Workshop - artist
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measurements: Framed: 176 x 159.5 x 9.5 cm (69 5/16 x 62 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 150 x 133.4 cm (59 1/16 x 52 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00
Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).
title: Juxtapositions
opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00
Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
title: Paolo Veronese: Versatile Master of Renaissance Venice
opening date: 2012-12-06T00:00:00
Paolo Veronese: Versatile Master of Renaissance Venice. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (December 6, 2012-April 14, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Survey of Italian Art. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (November 8-December 8, 1957).
* Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese with a Group of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Drawings. Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto, Ontario ( February 12-March 13, 1960).
* Masterpieces of the 16th Century Art. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (October 15-November 15, 1964).
* The Adriatic Sea: A Civilization Between Borders and Frontiers. Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy (March-July 2001).
* The Secular Veronese. (Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France (September 22, 2004-January 30, 2005); Musee Correr, Venice, Italy (February 11-May 29, 2005).
* Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (March 15-August 6, 2009; Musee du Louvre, Paris, France (September 14, 2009-January 5, 2010).
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 1950-
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(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: Until 1950
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Saemy Rosenberg visited Koppel in Toronto during the war and it was determined that Rosenberg & Stiebel would sell Koppel's collection
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Albert Koppel, Switzerland and Toronto, Ontario, consigned to Rosenberg & Stiebel
date: Probably 1933 - c. 1950
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* After leaving Germany, Alfred Koppel went to Switzerland before settling in Toronto.
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Leopold Koppel [1854-1933], Berlin, by descent to his son, Albert Koppel
date: Probably 1913-1933
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* Leopold Koppel was a prominent banker and entrepreneur with an extensive collection. Art historian Wilhelm von Bode [d. 1929], who advised Koppel on his collection, likely expected him to leave it to the Kasier-Friedrich-Museum (now the Bode Museum), which Bode had established in 1904. The donation never materialized, however, as the Koppel famly had to leave Germany when Hitler came to power.
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Balboni collection, Venice, probably sold to Leopold Koppel
date: Until 1913
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* Max J. Friedlaender's handwritten inventory of Leopold Koppel's collection, apparently the earliest documentation for the Veronese, states that Koppel purchased the painting in 1913 from Balboni in Venice. Balboni may refer to Carlo Balboni, a dealer in Venice who appears in the provenances of a series of works by Pietro Longhi currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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fun fact:
The white lilies held by Gabriel are a symbol of Mary's purity and innocence, often appearing in depictions of the Annunciation.
digital description:
Although Veronese is best known for his large-scale, pageant-like presentations, here the artist has taken the narrative of the Annunciation (the announcement of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and bear a son) and compressed the figures close to one another, creating a startling intimacy. According to a tradition established by the medieval writer Saint Bernard, Mary has been reading from the Old Testament prophecy of Isaiah (7:14), "A young woman is with child and she will bear a son."
wall description:
The attribution of this painting had long been in question, but its condition made a proper assessment difficult. A recent cleaning revealed that the dove’s halo had been partly obscured with overpaint. Moreover, the blue pigment degraded over time, and attempts to clean this area in the past further abraded the surface, but close attention to the remaining original paint allowed for a much more sensitive restoration. In 2012 this painting traveled to a major Veronese exhibition at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida. The consensus of specialists there was that Veronese created this work in collaboration with his studio hands, with the glittering highlights on the fabric especially characteristic of the artist.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
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Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
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Saemy Rosenberg, letter to William Milliken, June 30, 1950, in CMA curatorial file.
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Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
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Hadeln, Detlev, Hermann Voss, and Morton H. Bernath. Archiv Für Kunstgeschichte. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1913.
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Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file.
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Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London, England: Scala, 2012.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 198
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Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file.
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Archiv Für Kunstgeschichte II, no. 3 (1914-1915): no. 50.
page number: Mentioned: No. 50; reproduced: Taf. 50
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Francis, Henry S. "Annunciation by Veronese." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII no.2 (February, 1951): 39-40.
page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 17; Detail p. 18
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Milliken, William M. "1916 Cleveland 1951." ARTnews XLIX, no. 2 (1951): 30-37.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 34
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 11, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0011
"Recent Acquisitions." Pictures on Exhibit XIII, no. 5 (February 1951): 50-53.
page number: Mentioned: P. 53
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"Nachrichten." Die Kunst (March 1951): 121-125.
page number: Mentioned: P. 122
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"Museum News." Museums Journal LI (April 1951): 19-22.
page number: Mentioned: P. 22
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Vertova, Luisa. Veronese. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1952.
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Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957.
page number: Mentioned: p. 130, vol. I; Reproduced: pl. 1077, vol. II
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Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, P. 130; Reproduced: Vol. II, pl. 1077
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 417
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Tiziano, Tintoretto e Veronese a Toronto." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XII-XIV (1959-1960): 300.
page number: Mentioned: P. 300
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Art Gallery of Toronto. Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, with a Group of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Drawings: a loan exhibition 12 February-13 March 1960.Toronto, Ontario, 1960.
page number: Reproduced: no. 15
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n122
Marini, Remigio. L'opera completa del Veronese. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli Editore, 1968.
page number: Mentioned: p. 130; Reproduced: p. 131
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n122
Heineman, Rudolf J. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection [Established in Memory of Dr. H.C. August Thyssen. Castagnola: Villa Favorita, 1969.
page number: Mentioned: P. 346
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Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 39, 305, 374
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Pignatti, Terisio, and Veronese. Veronese. Venezia, Italy: Alfieri, 1976.
page number: Mentioned: p. 96, 162, 193, vol. I; Reproduced: figs. 679-82, vol. II.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 114
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n134
Hadeln, Detlev, and Gunter Schweikhart. Paolo Veronese. Florenz, Italy: Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, 1978.
page number: Mentioned: p. 92, 116; Reproduced: fig. 97
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 450; Reproduced: p. 451
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Gemin, Massimo. Nuovi studi su Paolo Veronese. Venezia, Italy: Arsenale editrice, 1990.
page number: Reproduced: p. 209, fig. 165
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"1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.
page number: Mentioned: p. 238
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418
Pignatti, Terisio, Veronese, and Filippo Pedrocco. Veronese. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 452-453; Reproduced: np. 349
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Nitti, Patrizia. Veronese: Gods, Heroes and Allegories. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2004.
page number: Mentioned: p. 124; Reproduced: p. 125
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Ilchman, Frederick, and Linda Borean. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: p. 214, cat. 41
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Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London,United Kingdom: Scala, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 145, fig. 24
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
page number: Reproduced: p. 55
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952
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