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The practice of decorating the outer corners of sarcophagi with reliefs of the Virgin Annunciate and the Annunciatory Angel seems to have originated in the Castellano di Salomone monument in the cathedral at Treviso (1321), and continued throughout the third quarter of the fourteenth century.","physicalDescription":"Relief in marble. The figure of the angel is turned to the left and stands in full-length on a moulded plinth. The left hand holds a scroll and the right hand is raised in benediction. Above is a strip of foliated ornament, and to the right is a concealed spiral column with a foliated capital.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"marble","id":"AAT11443"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carved","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved marble","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2018KX3851"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES395942"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statue","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Venice","id":"x29237"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1350-1375","earliest":"1350-01-01","latest":"1375-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Dr. W. 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The practice of decorating the outer corners of sarcophagi with reliefs of the Virgin Annunciate and the Annunciatory Angel seems to have originated in the Castellano di Salomone monument in the Duomo at Treviso (1321), and continue through the third quarter of the fourteenth century in, e.g., the Andrea Dandolo monument in Saint Marks (1354) and the Giovanni Dolfin monuments in Santi Giovanni e Paolo (ca. 1361). The present example differs from those in Vienna  in the substitution of a strip of foliated pattern for the indented ornament customarily found beneath the moulding at the top. The flat schematic handling of the drapery in both reliefs recalls that in the comparable reliefs on the tomb of Doge Bartolommeo Gradenigo in the atrium of St Mark's  (1342), though the level of execution is lower than in the Gradenigo.","briefDescription":"Statue, marble, Annunciatory Angel, Italy (Venice), 1350-75","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, J. <font -u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture In The Victoria And Albert Museum</font> (HMSO, 1964) p. 51, Cat. no. 48 fig no. 58"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<font -u>Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum. Die Estensische Kunstsammlung. Band I: Skulpturen und Plastiken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Katalog</font> (Vienna, 1919) pp. 20, 24-5, 32-3 Nos.28, 29, 38, 39, 52, 53, 54, 55"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Planiscig <font -u>Geschichte der Venezianischen Skulptur im XIV. 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