The Cestello Annunciation is completed about 1489 as a dated Florentine sacred panel as received
Dated 1 January 1489: The Cestello Annunciation is completed about 1489 as a dated Florentine sacred panel as received.
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Context
Shared architectural setting remains.
Sandro Botticelli’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Uffizi holds the Annunciation for the Cestello (Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi) context; dating late 1480s–1490.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Sandro Botticelli
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
No public driver impacts are listed for this fact.
Evidence
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- 1.Britannica — Sandro BotticelliEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Uffizi — Leonardo and Florentine workshop heritageGallerie degli Uffizi · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Uffizi and Britannica independently place a major Annunciation in Botticelli’s later 1480s sacred work.
Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
No causal path is recorded: this fact is not linked to a driver.
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Factrail. (2026). The Cestello Annunciation is completed about 1489 as a dated Florentine sacred panel as received. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-cestello-annunciation
https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-cestello-annunciation
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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