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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1450
Tempera and gold on wood
80 × 53 cm
Mamiano di Traversetolo, Italy

Soft light bathes the Madonna's delicate features as she gazes tenderly at the Christ Child, rendered in luminous tempera with gold leaf halos. Lippi's intimate domestic scene revolutionized Renaissance devotional imagery, humanizing sacred figures through gentle emotion rather than formal hierarchy.

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