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LIPPI, Filippino: Assumption

🖼 Assumption, 1489-91
Fresco
Rome, Italy

Celestial light bathes the ascending Virgin, surrounded by ascending angels in dynamic swirling composition rendered with delicate sfumato technique. Filippino Lippi's masterwork epitomizes High Renaissance spirituality, its vertical movement and luminous color deeply influencing Roman Counter-Reformation religious art.

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