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Madonna of Humility

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.

c. 1440

Tempera on panel

74.0 x 52.0 cm

SK-A-3011

Image and text courtesy of Rijksmuseum, 2019

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