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The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
is an
altarpiece
by Italian artist
Carlo Crivelli
showing an artistic adaptation of the
Annunciation
. The altarpiece was painted for the
Church of SS. Annunziata
in the Italian town of
Ascoli Piceno
, in the region of
Marche
, to celebrate the self-government granted to the town in 1482 by
Pope Sixtus IV
. The painting was removed to the
Pinacoteca di Brera
in Milan in 1811, but passed to
Auguste-Louis de Sivry
in 1820, and had reached England by the mid-19th century. It has been housed in the
National Gallery
in
London
since it was donated by
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton
in 1864.
Painting:
Carlo Crivelli
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