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ANGELICO, Fra: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, 1420s
Tempera and gold on panel
64 × 49 cm
New York, USA

Spare composition centers Christ on the cross, rendered in delicate tempera against gold leaf, with grieving figures arranged in geometric stillness below. Fra Angelico's devotional work epitomizes Early Renaissance spirituality, merging medieval gold-ground tradition with emerging linear perspective and human emotion.

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E. H. Gombrich
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