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LIPPI, Filippino: The Nativity with Two Angels

🖼 The Nativity with Two Angels, c. 1490
Tempera and oil on wood
25 × 37 cm
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Golden light bathes Mary and the newborn Christ in tender reverence, while two angels hover above in soft brushwork against a dark, intimate stable. Filippino Lippi's 1490 work exemplifies Early Renaissance devotion, blending delicate emotion with precise spatial depth that influenced Florence's spiritual art tradition.

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E. H. Gombrich
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