"The Annunciation" - one of Leonardo's first paintings

"The Annunciation" is dated to c. 1472–1476. Leonardo painted it when he was an apprentice in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio.

"The Annunciation" is oil and tempera on a large poplar panel painting. The painting is one of Leonardo's first works of art, which depicts the Annunciation, a popular biblical subject in 15th-century Florence.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, Italy.

Leonardo and his family moved to Florence in the mid-1460s. Florence was a center of Christian Humanist thought and culture at that time. Around the age of 14, he became a pupil in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine painter and sculptor.

Leonardo and his master, Verrocchio, painted "The Baptism of Christ" around 1472–1475, nearly the same time as "The Annunciation."