{"id":130761,"date":"2026-07-31T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/?post_type=product&p=130761"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:50:32","slug":"oznanjenje","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/leonardo-da-vinci\/oznanjenje\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci \u2013 The Annunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Annunciation \u2013 Leonardo\u2019s first independent painting<\/h2>\n

The Annunciation is the earliest large work Leonardo made while still a young painter, and for a long time it was not even thought to be his. The wide, almost cinematic composition shows the moment the angel Gabriel brings Mary the news. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this quiet garden scene into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A painting credited to the wrong painter<\/h3>\n

Leonardo painted the Annunciation around 1472\u20131476, when he was barely twenty and still in Andrea del Verrocchio\u2019s workshop. When the work entered the Uffizi in Florence in 1867 it was catalogued as a Domenico Ghirlandaio. Only in 1869 did the art historian Karl Eduard von Liphart recognise it as an early Leonardo; the attribution was supported by a preparatory drawing held at Christ Church, Oxford. The original is painted in oil and tempera on a poplar panel and measures 98 \u00d7 217 cm.<\/p>\n

What the painting shows<\/h3>\n

On the left kneels the angel Gabriel, wings just folded and a hand raised; beneath his knees the grass is painted so precisely that botanists have identified individual species. On the right Mary sits at a stone lectern, her hand on the book, answering with a restrained gesture. Between them opens an enclosed garden, and beyond it a harbour and mountains that dissolve into blue in the distance \u2013 Leonardo\u2019s aerial perspective already at full strength.<\/p>\n

The mistake that isn\u2019t one<\/h3>\n

For centuries painters pointed out an awkwardness: Mary\u2019s right arm looks too long, and the lectern oddly displaced. The prevailing explanation today is that this is not an error but a calculation. The painting was made for a side altar, where the viewer stood to its right and lower down; from that angle the proportions resolve. Already at twenty, then, Leonardo composed for the place from which the work would be seen, not for an ideal frontal position. The explanation is generally accepted but not documented \u2013 we give it as the best reading, not as established fact.<\/p>\n

A hand-painted reproduction for your home<\/h3>\n

Every reproduction of The Annunciation is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas \u2013 not a print, but a real painting created for you by an experienced artist. It is available in nine sizes, stretched on a wooden frame on request and in a frame from our 3D range. The markedly wide format works well above a bed, above a long sofa, or in a hallway where ordinary paintings look cramped.<\/p>\n