ANGELICO, Fra: Perugia Altarpiece

✦ ANGELICO, Fra

🖼 Perugia Altarpiece, 1447-48

◈ Tempera and gold on panel (central) (each side)

⊞ 128 × 88 cm

▣ Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria

◎ Perugia, Italy

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Golden light bathes hierarchical figures in tempera, with enthroned Madonna centered amid saints in Gothic gold-ground composition. This altarpiece epitomizes Early Renaissance devotional art, blending medieval spiritual intensity with emerging humanistic naturalism that defined Florentine innovation.

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E. H. Gombrich

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