Leonardo Da Vinci, Annunciation 1472-75 circaTempera on wood, cm 98x217 Inv. 1890, n. 1618 The work came to the Uffizi in 1867 from the monastery of San Bartolomeo of Monteoliveto, near Florence. It was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio until 1869, when some critics recognised ...

Jan van Eyck is considered to be the founder of the Early Renaissance style in the Northern Renaissance. It is believed that Eyck invented painting with oils. His paint is so transparent that his works have a unique, almost luminous sheen. So outstanding was his skill as an oil painter that the in...