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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors

🖼 Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors, c. 1440
Oil on panel
155 × 144 cm
Rome, Italy

Golden light floods the panel as Gabriel kneels before Mary in a graceful Renaissance interior, while two donors pray humbly in the foreground. The composition revolutionized religious art by integrating secular patrons into sacred narrative, establishing the devotional portrait as a major Renaissance convention.

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E. H. Gombrich
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