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LIPPI, Filippino: Adoration of the Magi

🖼 Adoration of the Magi, 1496
Tempera grassa on wood
258 × 243 cm
Florence, Italy

Exotic procession unfolds across layered landscape as richly dressed figures converge on the humble stable, rendered in luminous tempera with intricate detail. Filippino's 1496 masterpiece synthesizes Northern precision with Florentine grace, establishing the visual vocabulary for Renaissance interpretations of this pivotal nativity moment.

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