Master of the
Urbino Coronation
The Annunciation
to Zachariah (43.3)
(Text and Picture Copyright
1977 by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester which is not
responsible for this publication.)
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| The Annunciation to Zachariah |
This detached fresco is believed to have been originally in the church of S. Lucia, Fabriano. The subject, taken from the first chapter of Luke, presents the vision of the aged Zachariah as he officiates at the altar of incense and learns from the angel Gabriel that his wife, Elizabeth, although “well stricken in years,” is to bear a son, John, who will “make ready a people” for the Lord. The crowds, who “waited….and marveled,” are at the right, dressed in the 14th century Florentine style, the middle figure wearing the painted turban of a Jew. The kneeling figure at the left is probably the donor of the panel.
Zeri was the first to
attribute this picture to the Master of the Urbino Coronation, a master
re-constructed by Mario Salmi in 1932. Zeri connected it with companion frescoes,
Crucifixion in the Museum of fine
Arts, Boston and The Birth of John the
Baptist Galleria Nazionale, Rome.
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