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LIPPI, Filippino: Allegory of Music or Erato

🖼 Allegory of Music or Erato, c. 1500
Tempera on panel.
61 × 51 cm
Berlin, Germany

Ethereal elegance defines this Renaissance figure, her lyre and flowing robes rendered in soft sfumato against a luminous background. Filippino Lippi's personification of Music exemplifies 15th-century humanist ideals, merging classical mythology with spiritual grace to celebrate artistic virtue.

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