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The Annunciation by the Italian mannerist artist Jacopo Pontormo was painted as part of his commission to decorate the Cappella Capponi in Santa Felicità in Florence. It is frescoed around the window on the wall adjacent to Pontormo's masterpiece, the famous Deposition from the Cross. Pontormo depicts the Annunciation, the revelation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, in a lively composition, with both figures in an elastic contrapposto.