Annunziata Polyptych [SEP] collection
Annunziata Polyptych
The Annunziata Polyptych is a painting cycle started by Filippino Lippi and finished by Pietro Perugino, whose central panel is now divided between the Galleria dell'Accademia ("Deposition from the Cross") and the Basilica dell'Annunziata, both in Florence, Italy. The polyptych had other six panels, which are housed in the Lindenau-Museum of Altenburg, the Metropolitan Museum of New York City, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome and in a private collection in South Africa.
History.
The work was originally commissioned
The upper small cupola, covered by yellow maiolica, was destroyed in the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, but has been rebuilt in the same shape but with different materials.
- Ducal Castle, known from the 12th century. Of the medieval edifice, the square plan with the angular towers remain.
- Church of the "Annunziata" with a late-Gothic apse. It houses a polychrome wooden polyptych in the high altar, in turn including a late 15th-century triptych
- Monastery of St. Vitus
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