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{{Infobox Painting
| image_file=Giovanni_Battista_Pittoni_-_Annunciation_-_WGA17968.jpg
| title=Annunciation
|image_size = 380px
| artist=[[Giambattista Pittoni]]
| year=circa 1757
| medium=[[Oil painting|Oil and tempera on panel]]
| height_metric=152
| width_metric=205
| city=[[Venice]], [[Italy]]
| museum=[[Gallerie dell'Accademia]]
}}
'''''Annunciation''''' is a painting attributed to the [[Rococo]] artist [[Giambattista Pittoni]], dating from circa 1757<ref>[http://www.gallerieaccademia.it/apertura-nuove-sale-dellala-palladiana|Collezione Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, ''L'Annunciazione'' di Giambattista Pittoni, Apertura nuove sale dell'ala palladiana]</ref><ref name="A">[http://www.lastampa.it/2016/03/14/blogs/culturanatura/le-gallerie-dellaccademia-vxOOFCfd3N3D1kfHVSrEzI/pagina.html Marica Rossi, ''Le Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia'', La Stampa, 2016]</ref>. 

== History ==
The painting was completed in 1757 in Venice, when Pittoni was appointed president of the Accademia dei Pittori in Venice, is exhibited in the permanent collection of the [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]] of [[Venice]], by donation by Pittoni himself, as tradition to the appointment of President and as he also did [[Giambattista Tiepolo]].

The painting, which is part of the Academy's first historical patrimony, is inserted within frames recovered in 2015 following a large restoration project, it is in the best conservation conditions because it is subject to frequent maintenance works, and is exhibited in the hall origin of the Gallerie [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]], right where it had its headquarters since 1808 and whose history, of which one of the protagonists was Pittoni, remained intertwined with that of the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Venice]] founded by Pittoni, until 1882, when there was the separation between the museum and the academic institution with educational functions.
It was also a form of presentation by Pittoni of his skills to the city of Venice, upon their entry into the institution with historical-allegorical subjects, as were the views of Canaletto present in the same exhibition hall. It was in fact a tradition that whoever entered the institutions but above all who obtained the position of President of the Academy of Venice, executed a painting to be donated to the Academy.

=== Exhibition ===
* ll Fontegheto della Farina, Sala delle Adunanze dell'Accademia, Accademia di Venezia, 1758
* Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi, Dorsoduro, 1050, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Sala XV
* Fiera della Sensa, 1767
* Permanent exhibition of the [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]] in Venice, ala Paladiana, Sala Pittura, 2015

==See also==
* [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]]
* [[Giambattista Pittoni]]
* [[Giambattista Tiepolo]]

==Notes and references==
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== Bibliography ==
* Elisa Viola, L'Accademia di Venezia: i maestri, le collezioni, le sedi, Marsilio, 2005
* Zava Boccazzi F. (1979), p. 172
* Nepi Scirè G./Valcanover F. (1985), p.152; Nepi Scire' G. (1995), pp. 60-69
* Nepi Scirè G. (1998), p. 141
* Colosio G. (2002), pp.711-712
* Moschini Marconi S. (1970), p. 80-81, n. 171
* Laura Pittoni, Dei Pittoni, artisti veneti, pgg 93, 1907

==External links==
{{commons category|Annunciation by Giambattista Pittoni}}
*[http://www.gallerieaccademia.it/annunciazione-1 ''L'Annunciazione'', Giambattista Pittoni, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Catalog n. 438, Room 9]
*[https://www.beni-culturali.eu/opere_d_arte/scheda/-annunciazione-pittoni-giovanni-battista-1687-1767-05-00401163/504701|''L'Annunciazione'', Giambattista Pittoni, State property, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Cultural Heritage, code 05 00401163]


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