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LIPPI, Fra Filippo: Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne

🖼 Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne, 1452-53
Tempera on wood, diameter 135 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes the enthroned Madonna and Child, surrounded by intimate narrative scenes depicting St. Anne's life rendered in luminous tempera. Lippi's composition merges devotional focus with storytelling, establishing the influential Florentine Renaissance approach to multi-narrative religious panels.

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