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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Annunciation

🖼 Annunciation, 1448-50
Egg tempera on wood
68 × 152 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light floods the modest interior as Gabriel kneels before Mary, rendered in delicate tempera with architectural precision and graceful linear perspective. This intimate Annunciation exemplifies early Renaissance spirituality—merging divine revelation with domestic realism and establishing compositional conventions for generations of Italian painters.

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