ANGELICO, Fra: The Adoration of the Magi

✦ ANGELICO, Fra

🖼 The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1445

◈ Panel, diameter 137,4 cm

▣ National Gallery of Art

◎ Washington, USA

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Golden light bathes a procession of richly robed figures approaching the Holy Family in a detailed landscape rendered with precise linear perspective. Fra Angelico's ethereal style synthesizes International Gothic splendor with early Renaissance spatial innovation, establishing the visual language for this devotional subject.

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E. H. Gombrich

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