BOTTICELLI, Sandro
(b. 1445, Firenze, d. 1510, Firenze)

Cestello Annunciation (detail)

1489-90
Tempera on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The architectural motifs of the landscape with river which spreads out in the background reveal northern features. A multi-towered, mediaeval castle rises on a bizarrely shaped mountain to the left.