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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1440
Tempera on panel
79 × 52 cm
Washington, United States

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Child in tender intimacy, rendered with delicate brushwork and warm gold tones. Lippi's humanized Madonna revolutionized religious art, replacing rigid Byzantine conventions with emotional warmth and domestic grace that influenced Renaissance painting.

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E. H. Gombrich
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