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The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
1486 · Egg tempera with some oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
For the Annunciation · 25 March
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A golden ray comes down out of the sky, passes through a hole in the wall, and reaches Our Lady at her prayer desk. Out in the street Gabriel kneels, and Saint Emidius stops him, a model of Ascoli on his knee. The National Gallery gives the reason: in 1482 Pope Sixtus IV granted Ascoli self-government, and the news reached the town on 25 March, the feast of the Annunciation. The Gallery calls the man on the bridge, reading a message brought by carrier pigeon, a witty analogy of the Annunciation itself. Carlo Crivelli lettered LIBERTAS ECCLESIASTICA across the step. Heaven's news goes in by the small hole.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius', Carlo Crivelli, 1486, NG739; read 2026-09-24. · Alasdair Flint, 'Crivelli, The Annunciation', in Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting (London: The National Gallery, 2014); read 2026-09-24.
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Carlo Crivelli (about 1430/5 - about 1494) |
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| Date | 1486 |
| Museum | The National Gallery, London |
| Accession | NG739 |
| Medium | Egg tempera with some oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 207 × 146.7 cm |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in |
| Held by | The National Gallery, London · NG739 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius - Carlo Crivelli - National Gallery.jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Master | 2,996 × 4,226 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from Wikimedia Commons on 25 August 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,226 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.