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LIPPI, Filippino: Adoration of the Child

🖼 Adoration of the Child, 1480-83
Oil on copper plate, diameter 53 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Christ Child in intimate reverence, while attendant figures kneel in devotion across a luminous landscape. This devotional scene exemplifies Florentine Renaissance spirituality, blending tender humanity with divine mystery through Lippi's characteristic delicate brushwork and ethereal atmosphere.

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E. H. Gombrich
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