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Annunciation (Recanati Annunciation) by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1534, Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
Annunciation

Annunciation (Recanati Annunciation)

c. 1534 · Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels

For the Annunciation · 25 March

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About this painting

The cat is the only one who gets out. The Rete Museale delle Città Lottesche finds it not at all pleased with the commotion; the Marche region's tourism site reads it as evil fleeing the divine presence. Everyone else stays. God the Father plunges from the sky, in the network's phrase, like an ancient swimmer. The angel kneels with a lily and one arm flung up, frightened, the network says, by the enormity of what is happening. Our Lady has been interrupted at her prayer book and turns toward us with both palms raised, in a tidy room with a nightcap, a towel and a candle. Lorenzo Lotto made it for the Oratory of the Confraternity of Santa Maria sopra Mercanti in Recanati. Only the cat is running.

Sources: Rete Museale delle Città Lottesche (Marche), 'Annunciazione', Lorenzo Lotto, Museo Civico di Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati; read 2026-09-24. · Regione Marche (ATIM), letsmarche.it, 'Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione', Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati; 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)

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The Record
Date c. 1534
Collection Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
Subject Annunciation
Season Advent
Master 3,489 px
License Public domain

The file this print is made from

Source Lorenzo Lotto 066.jpg
Master 3,489 px on the long edge
Rights Public domain — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistLorenzo Lotto
Datec. 1534
MuseumMuseo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
Sheet sizes8×10 in, 11×14 in
Provenance of the file
Held byMuseo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels · citation pending
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Lorenzo Lotto 066.jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master2,469 × 3,489 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons on 25 August 2026; held as our print master.

The sheets

8×10 in sheet 8×10 in · image 7.1×10 in · archival margin · 349 dpi
11×14 in sheet 11×14 in · image 9.9×14 in · archival margin · 249 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,489 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.