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| Keywords: Workshop of Filippo Lippi - Madonna and Child - Walters 37429.jpg This tender devotional image of the Madonna and Child before a golden curtain still has its original frame the classical shapes of which demonstrate the Renaissance fascination with antiquity The frame looks like an architectural opening that has cut off the top of the Virgin's halo Inscribed along its base in Latin are the words spoken to Mary by the archangel Gabriel which were also a popular prayer Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with thee The star on the Virgin's blue robe alludes to her epithet of Stella maris the Star of the Sea Filippo Lippi a Carmelite friar was one of the leading painters of 15th-century Florence He was famous for his innovative naturalism and had many pupils the most important of whom was Sandro Botticelli 1444/45-1510 For more information on this painting please see Zeri catalogue number 44 pp 73-74 ca 1446 1447 Renaissance tempera gold panel H with frame 50 x W 34 1/4 x D 1 1/8 in 127 x 87 x 2 8 cm ; Painted surface cm 75 5 52 3 ; Panel cm 115 7 73 4 accession number 37 429 22808 Marquess Filippo Marignoli Rome and Spoleto until 1898 mode of acquisition unknown Marquess Francesco Marignoli 1898 mode of acquisition unknown Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome 1899 mode of acquisition unknown 1900 catalogue supplement no 31 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Inscribed on original wood frame AVE GRATIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM; Translation Hail Mary full of grace our lord is with thee Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonnas by Filippo Lippi Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonna and Child | ||||
