The Annunciation
by ARCANGELO DI JACOPO DEL SELLAIO, Tempera on panel, 131 x 79 cm (each)
The artist, a minor painter, was the son of Jacopo del Sellaio.
The reliefs, painted in grisaille on either side of the arch in the background, show the Temptation and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. They derive from Masaccio’s and Masolino’s frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.