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LIPPI, Filippino: Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard

🖼 Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard, 1486
Oil on panel
210 × 195 cm
Florence, Italy

Celestial light breaks through clouds as the Virgin descends toward the kneeling saint, rendered in delicate tempera with ethereal figures floating above earthly Bernard. Filippino captures medieval mysticism through heavenly vision, blending Florentine Renaissance technique with spiritual devotion that defined 15th-century religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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