Mar 5
Madonna and Child with Two Angels (also known as Madonna col Bambino e angeli, Lippina, and Madonna degli Uffizi) (1460-1465) by Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406 – 1469), tempera on wood, 95 x 62 cm, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
#Madonna and Child with Two Angels#Madonna col Bambino e angeli#Lippina#Madonna degli Uffizi#filippo lippi#painting#my upload#15th century#renaissance#art#fine art#tempera#depicting Mary as a tender earthly Florentine mother rather than a remote divine figure#blends sacred themes with intimate emotion featuring a mischievous angel and a melancholy Mary#likely modeled after Lippi's lover Lucrezia Buti#Humanized Divinity:#Mary is portrayed as a beautiful fashionable young woman with complex emotions#serenity mixed with melancholy hinting at her awareness of Jesus’s suffering#Intimacy and Realism:#The painting functions as a scene of familial affection rather than a stiff formal icon with the angels acting playful and childlike#Symbolic Setting:#The landscape behind them includes rocks and a sea referencing Mary as the star of the sea and port of our salvation#while the window-like frame suggests looking into a divine yet natural world#Personal Connection:#widely believed that Lippi used his lover the nun Lucrezia Buti as the model for the Madonna#and their son Filippino as the mischievous angel in the foreground#Fashion and Status:#The Madonna’s elaborate hairstyle with pearls and a transparent veil reflects the style of a wealthy 15th-century Florentine woman#religion#religious painting