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LIPPI, Filippino: Allegory

🖼 Allegory, c. 1498
Oil on wood
29 × 22 cm
Florence, Italy

Luminous figures float amid swirling drapery and classical architecture, rendered in delicate tempera with gold accents. This allegorical composition exemplifies Late Renaissance humanist ideals, blending Christian virtue with Neoplatonic philosophy through Lippi's distinctive ethereal style.

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