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The Cestello Annunciation
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
A late religious work by Botticelli, The Cestello Annunciation is offered here as a hand-painted oil on canvas that carries the tension and colour of the original.
Description
Description
By the late 1480s Sandro Botticelli was working at the height of his reputation in Florence, and the Cestello Annunciation was painted for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena de Pazzi, then known as Cestello, from which the picture takes its name. It belongs to a moment when the artist had moved past the crowded mythologies of his earlier career toward a sparer, more inward religious art, and the painting still carries the charge of that transition.
About Cestello Annunciation
The scene is built on a diagonal that runs from the kneeling angel at the left to the bending figure of the Virgin at the right, her body curved back as though startled mid motion. Behind them a doorway opens onto a landscape of a walled town and a winding river, painted with the pale, atmospheric distance that Florentine painters had learned from northern example. The drapery falls in sharp, nervous folds, catching light in a way that gives the whole encounter a sense of arrested movement rather than settled calm.
Colour carries much of the emotional weight: the rose and grey of the Virocean interior set against the cooler blues of the far hills, with gold reserved for the angel and hairline traces of gilding still visible in the architecture. Botticelli handles the perspective of the tiled floor and the receding room with a precision that anchors the more agitated poses above it, so that structure and feeling hold each other in balance. This is a late work, made when his line had grown more urgent and his figures more expressive of inner state than of physical weight.
The hand-painted reproduction
Each ByMuseum reproduction of this composition is painted by hand rather than printed, an oil painting reproduction built up in layers of real pigment on artist-grade canvas. The painter working from the original studies the falls of drapery, the modulation of the sky, and the particular grey pink of the architecture, then reconstructs them stroke by stroke, so the surface carries genuine brushwork and the slight texture of worked paint. As an oil on canvas reproduction it is a made object with its own depth and variation, not a flat facsimile, and it is the kind of picture that keeps giving something new to notice: a fold caught differently by afternoon light, a passage of blue that shifts with the hour, the tension in a hand that was not quite apparent on first viewing.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready, prepared for display
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
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For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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