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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Death of the Virgin

🖼 Death of the Virgin, 1467-69
Fresco
Duomo
Florence, Italy

Soft light bathes apostles surrounding the Virgin's deathbed, their grief rendered in tender gestures and luminous fresco technique. Lippi's intimate composition revolutionized Renaissance devotional art by emphasizing human emotion over Byzantine formality, influencing generations of Italian painters.

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