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Our Lady Of Humility

Fra Filippo Lippi • Painting, 1428, 169×85 cm
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About the artwork
Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Religious scene
Technique: Tempera
Materials: Wood
Date of creation: 1428
Size: 169×85 cm
Artwork in selections: 6 selections

Description of the artwork «Our Lady Of Humility»

"Our Lady Of Humility" written around 1428, the early work of Filippo Lippi, one of the most famous artists of the Quattrocento.

At the time of writing this picture on the tree, a young monk ("Phra" in front of his name means "brother" and points to monastic status) about twenty-two. More than seven years ago, he took monastic vows in a Florentine Carmelite of the monastery of Santa Maria del Carmine, and five years later moved to Siena, where the Church authorities, despite the stormy temperament of fra Filippo, was appointed his Deputy Abbot. However, the monastery of the Carmine, where early orphaned, fra Filippo were still a teenager, continues to put his talent to "graduate" orders. One of them is the "virgin of Humility", nowadays stored in the Museum of Milan's Castello Sforzesco.

The greatest attraction of Carmine was considered to be the Brancacci chapel, painted Masaccio. The contemplation and reproduction of the frescoes in the chapel formed by fra Filippo as an artist, and in "our lady of Humility" the impact of manners by Masaccio still highly noticeable.

According to experts, the work still exist echoes of late Gothic influences, but there is artistic and finds evidence of new Renaissance trends in the works of Lippi. The latter should include novelty and wonderful balanced composition, mastery cut-off modeling of volumes, and unthinkable for the middle ages, the specifics of which fra Filippo has written the faces of his characters.

All of them, from the mother and Infant to the local saints in the right part of the picture, striking a subtle psychological nuance. It is particularly expressive-looking children.

The dreamy look of the virgin Mary looking over the audience, somewhere outside the picture; it's off from the present, the future ahead looked divine Son and in advance of taking it (hence the meaning of the name – "virgin of Humility"). At the same time children, not excluding the Christ child, entirely given to the current moment. Boys with the faces of the commoners behind Mary "look in the frame", pull the neck, as if posing for the artist and persistently wanting to be captured. Their absolutely individual, devoid of the adornment of the person with their mouths open to allow you to talk about almost expressionistic manner Lippi.

The baby also can not sit on the arms of his mother: hand resting on her knee, he deflects away, restless fidgeting, not wanting to sit in place. The atmosphere of the painting is filled with movement. From the Gothic icon of statics there is almost nothing left.

Since the painting was done by order of the Carmelite Order, fra Filippo Lippi is placed in the right part of the composition of the two Carmelite saints. With white Lily, symbolizing the virgin's purity, shows albert Sicilian, but with a dagger in the head of the innocent victims of Saint Angelo from the city of Licata.

Author: Anna Yesterday
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