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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1437-39
Tempera on wood (each panel)
64 × 23 cm
New York, USA

Soft light bathes the Virgin as the angel Gabriel kneels before her, their figures delicately modeled in tempera against a luminous architectural setting. Lippi's intimate rendition emphasizes the sacred moment's tenderness, establishing the Annunciation as deeply human rather than purely divine—a revolutionary approach in Florentine Renaissance art.

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