Controversy about Leonardo’s Annunciation loan

“The Annunciation” by Leonardo da Vinci

Controversy about Leonardo’s Annunciation loan

The loan of Leonardo da Vinci’s ” The Annunciation” -exhibited at the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence- to the Tokyo ‘s National Museum in Japan has caused a big controversy in Italy, resulting into protests outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence .

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Among the protestor was the director of the Uffizi museum, an Italian senator and numerous Florentine citizens who object to the loan of the famous Renaissance work

The Annunciation is a small panel painted by Leonardo in his early years (c.1472-75). For a long time it had been considered as the first pictorial work by da Vinci. However, during the last century the critics were divided. Some of them accepted the authority by Leonardo, but others considered the collaboration of Lorenzo di Credi, and some critics even rejected any intervention by Leonardo da Vinci, attributing the work to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio or even Verrocchio

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