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LIPPI, Filippino: Meeting at the Golden Gate

🖼 Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1497
Tempera on wood
113 × 124 cm
Copenhagen, Denmark

Golden light bathes two figures embracing at an ornate gate, their bodies intertwined in tender reunion rendered with delicate Renaissance linework. Filippino Lippi illustrates the apocryphal meeting of Anne and Joachim, a subject celebrating divine grace through intimate human emotion.

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E. H. Gombrich
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