Fra Filippo Lippi . ility what he lostin simplicity of style and intensity of religious senti-ment. The kneeling figure of the Archangel Gabriel,however, is majestic and expressive, while the grace-ful and natural attitude of the Virgin, on whom theHoly Ghost, represented by the symbolic dove,descends, is conceived in Fra Filippos best manner. The companion picture to this lunette representsSt. John the Baptist, having on his right St. Francis,St. Lawrence, and St. Cosmo, and on his left , St. Anthony, and St. Peter Martyr. Herethe composition is of the simplest, the seven figures ^
Fra Filippo Lippi . ility what he lostin simplicity of style and intensity of religious senti-ment. The kneeling figure of the Archangel Gabriel,however, is majestic and expressive, while the grace-ful and natural attitude of the Virgin, on whom theHoly Ghost, represented by the symbolic dove,descends, is conceived in Fra Filippos best manner. The companion picture to this lunette representsSt. John the Baptist, having on his right St. Francis,St. Lawrence, and St. Cosmo, and on his left , St. Anthony, and St. Peter Martyr. Herethe composition is of the simplest, the seven figures ^ These lunettes were formerly in the possession of the brothersMetzger, who sold the first in i86r to Sir Charles Eastlake, bywhom it was presented to the National Gallery; and the second,also in 1861, to Mr. Barker, who subsequently sold it to theNational Gallery. ^ The palace of the Medici was sold by the Grand DukeFerdinand II in the seventeenth century to the Riccardi family,from whom it derived its present yNiv[esiTy of mmm. OEPAKTMENT UF UNIVERSITY tXTEXSlON.
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