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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Madonna with Child and Two Angels

🖼 Madonna with Child and Two Angels, 1465
Metalpoint, white lead, black chalk, brown wash on prepared orange-pink paper
330 × 240 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft brushwork renders the Madonna's tender gaze toward the Christ Child, flanked by angelic figures in delicate profile against gold leaf. Lippi's intimate composition revolutionized devotional imagery, blending Byzantine tradition with Renaissance humanism through unprecedented emotional warmth and naturalistic detail.

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E. H. Gombrich
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