The Annunciation

Johann Jakob von Sandrart (1655-1698) was a German painter known for the elegantly composed religious paintings that make him one of the accomplished painters of the German Baroque tradition. The Annunciation from the last third of the 1600s depicts the Annunciation in the elegantly composed, richly colored manner that distinguishes Sandrart's best work from the more general religious painting of his contemporaries. The Sandrart family was one of the most important artistic families in Germany, and Johann Jakob's elegantly composed religious paintings represent one of the accomplished traditions in German Baroque painting.

The Annunciation is important in the history of German painting because it demonstrates the elegantly composed, richly colored manner that Sandrart brought to religious subjects as one of the accomplished painters of the German Baroque tradition. Sandrart's elegantly composed religious paintings—combining the rich color of the German Baroque tradition with the elegant composition that is his most distinctive contribution—represent one of the accomplished traditions in German Baroque painting, and the last third 1600s painting shows this tradition at its most elegantly composed.

The Annunciation is Sandrart's elegantly composed German Baroque: the Annunciation rendered in the richly colored manner of one of the accomplished painters of the German Baroque tradition. The last third 1600s painting shows the combination of rich color with elegant composition that makes Sandrart one of the accomplished German Baroque painters.