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ANGELICO, Fra: The Virgin of Humility

🖼 The Virgin of Humility, 1435-45
Tempera on panel
99 × 49 cm
Pedralbes, Spain

Soft gold leaf illuminates the Virgin seated humbly on the ground, cradling the Christ Child amid attending angels in delicate tempera. This composition revolutionized Marian iconography, emphasizing spiritual virtue over earthly majesty during the Italian Renaissance.

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