★This book introduces in detail "the Annunciazione", one of masterpieces of Boccaccio Boccaccino, one of the major interpreters of the transition to the sixteenth-century manner in northern Italy.
★There is also comparison among this masterpiece and other capital pieces by Boccaccino, leading readers learning about the central years in the master's career.

Never analyzed and appreciated as it deserved, as it is known to scholars only from black and white photos, the Annunciazione is among the masterpieces of Boccaccio Boccaccino, an artist of great stature who knew how to juggle multiple points of reference, combining the quality of the pictorial drafts with an ideational and compositional tension.
This book investigates this extraordinary work, which landed in the Arvedi collection and then in the Diocesan Museum of Cremona by bequest, with the main purpose of restoring it to its rightful place finally adequate to its importance.
The sumptuously illustrated volume does not fail to emphasize the dialogue of the Annunciation with two other capital pieces by Boccaccino, which are placed side by side with it in the exhibition, such as the altarpiece of the church of Sant'Agata with "the Holy Family" with "Mary Magdalene" and "the Crucifixion" on canvas, works between 1504 and 1508, central years in the master's career.