The Annunciation, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1475 about, 15th Century, oil and tempera on panel, cm 98 x 217 . Italy, Tuscany, Florence, Uffizi Gallery. All. Angel announcing Archangel Gabriel, kneeling on a field covered with flowers. The Virgin is sitting near an elaborated bookstand and is leafing through a book. She is wearing an ultramarine blue mantle cloak and bright red robe. On the background the entrance of a villa in Michelozzos style with angular ashlar work rustication. A small partition wall separates the scene from a landscape with pine trees and cypresses standing out against a grey azure sky in the gilded first light of the day. Crystalline light, chiaroscuro.