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LIPPI, Filippino: Pietà

🖼 Pietà, c. 1501
Oil on panel
18 × 33 cm
Washington, United States

Soft brushwork renders Christ's limp body cradled by mourning figures against a distant landscape. Lippi's intimate composition synthesizes Flemish detail with Italian Renaissance harmony, establishing the Pietà as devotional art's emotional pinnacle during early sixteenth-century Florence.

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