Madonna of Humility

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Madonna of Humility

Creator

Fra Angelico

Italian Early Renaissance painter · 1400–1455

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Date
c. 1440
Medium
panel, tempera
Institution
Rijksmuseum

As a Dominican monk, Fra Angelico was not subject to the strict rules of the Florentine painters’ guild. He was thus free to develop a more personal style. This combined strong realism and solid forms with a certain sweetness partly derived from earlier Sienese and Florentine examples.

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