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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Adoration of the Child with Saints

🖼 Adoration of the Child with Saints, c. 1463
Tempera on wood
140 × 130 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes the infant Christ as Mary kneels in reverent adoration, surrounded by saints in a harmonious Renaissance composition. Lippi's tender intimacy and luminous palette revolutionized devotional imagery, establishing the intimate nativity as a cornerstone of Italian Renaissance spirituality.

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E. H. Gombrich
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