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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Madonna and Child with Two Angels

🖼 Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1460-65
Tempera on wood
95 × 62 cm
Florence, Italy

Tender intimacy unfolds as Madonna gazes downward while Christ Child reaches outward, flanked by graceful angels in soft tempera. Lippi's intimate composition revolutionized Renaissance devotional art, merging humanized emotion with spiritual reverence in a format that defined Florence's visual culture.

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