Photograph by George P. Landow, © October 2000. It may be used for any scholarly or educational purpose without permission, as long as the previous credit appears.
The location of Tintoretto's The Annunciation in the lower hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
(To the right one can see a portion of the next work in the series, which depicts the presentation of the child Jesus in the temple.) Ruskin's description and interpretation of The Annunciation proved central to the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly William Holman Hunt. Ruskin and the painter visited the Scuola together in 1869 and discussed Ruskin's passage on the painting written almost a quarter century earlier.
Last modified October 2000