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ANGELICO, Fra: San Domenico Altarpiece

🖼 San Domenico Altarpiece, 1423-24
Tempera and gold on panel
212 × 237 cm
Bologna, Italy

Gilded gold leaf frames serene saints in symmetrical arrangement, their delicate faces rendered with luminous tempera technique. Fra Angelico's devotional masterpiece exemplifies Early Renaissance spirituality, merging Gothic precision with humanistic grace to transform sacred narrative into meditative experience.

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