Giovanni Francesco Three Panels Depicting the Annunciation, Tempera on panel Giovanni Francesco da Rimini was one of the more individual painters active in Padua, Bologna and Florence during the middle decades of the Quattrocento. His art combines Renaissance motifs, such as the laurel wreath rondels seen here, with a charming, often naive narrative sense, and his figure style recalls that of the Florentine master, Fra Filippo Lippi. In all likelihood, these three panels once decorated the uppermost part of an altarpiece, the principal parts of which are now in the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia. |