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LIPPI, Filippino: Signoria Altarpiece (Pala degli Otto)

🖼 Signoria Altarpiece (Pala degli Otto), 1486
Tempera on wood
355 × 255 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light illuminates eight saints arranged in solemn rows, their delicate features rendered in Filippino's precise tempera technique. Commissioned by Florence's governing magistrates, this altarpiece demonstrates Early Renaissance devotion while establishing the artist's mastery of hierarchical sacred composition and luminous color.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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