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ANGELICO, Fra: Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows (Cell 39)

🖼 Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows (Cell 39), 1441-42
Fresco
1175 × 357 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes kneeling kings presenting gifts to the Virgin and Child, rendered in luminous tempera with meticulous detail. The Man of Sorrows appears above, linking earthly adoration to Christ's redemptive suffering—a profound meditation on devotion painted directly in a monk's cell.

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