Artist: Neroccio de Landi, Italian, 1447-1500, The Annunciation, ca. 1480, Tempera on panel, 49 × 128.5 × 3.9 cm (19 5/16 × 50 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.), Neroccio de Landi, who was an accomplished sculptor as well as a painter, is best known for the elegance and grace of his renderings of the Virgin, saints, and angels, which made him one of the most admired and sought-after painters among late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collectors of Italian Renaissance art. A half-moon-shaped panel such as this, known as a lunette, was intended to adorn the upper register of a large altarpiece. The rest of the structure from which this imposing and justly famous panel derives has not yet been identified. , Made in Siena, Italy, Italian, Siena, 15th century, Paintings