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LIPPI, Filippino: Madonna with Child and Saints

🖼 Madonna with Child and Saints, c. 1488
Oil on wood
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes the Virgin enthroned centrally, flanked by saints in balanced symmetry, rendered with delicate tempera precision. This altarpiece exemplifies Florentine Renaissance devotion, blending spiritual reverence with humanistic portraiture to inspire prayer in Santo Spirito's congregation.

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E. H. Gombrich
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