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LIPPI, Filippino: Deposition from the Cross

🖼 Deposition from the Cross, c. 1506
Panel
333 × 218 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft, golden light bathes Christ's limp body as mourners lower him from the cross in graceful, interlocking poses. Lippi's composition synthesizes Florentine Renaissance ideals with emotional intimacy, establishing the Deposition as a devotional masterpiece of unprecedented psychological depth.

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