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LIPPI, Filippino: Disputation with Simon Magus and Crucifixion of Peter

🖼 Disputation with Simon Magus and Crucifixion of Peter, 1481-82
Fresco
230 × 598 cm
Florence, Italy

Dramatic gestures animate this fresco as Peter argues with Simon Magus while workers prepare his inverted crucifixion below. Filippino synthesized Masaccio's monumental figures with Renaissance perspective, creating a theological narrative that dominated Florentine religious art for generations.

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E. H. Gombrich
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