Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus
Simone Martini · 1333
The story
The Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus is a painting by the Italian Gothic artists Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. It is a wooden triptych painted in tempera and gold, with a central panel having double size. Considered Martini's masterwork and one of the most outstanding works of Gothic painting, the work was originally painted for a side altar in Siena Cathedral.
- Artist
- Simone Martini
- Date
- 1333
- Collection
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Movement
- International Gothic, Gothic painting
- Medium
- tempera, panel
- Size
- 265 × 184 cm
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